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Narratives of Technology

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  • © 2016

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Authors:
  1. J. M. van der Laan

    1. Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Illinois State University, Normal, USA

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. The Reality of Technology

    • J. M. van der Laan
    Pages 1-20

  3. Narrative and Myth

    • J. M. van der Laan
    Pages 21-40

  4. The Dominant Narrative

    • J. M. van der Laan
    Pages 41-73

  5. A Counter-Narrative

    • J. M. van der Laan
    Pages 75-110

  6. Literary Narratives

    • J. M. van der Laan
    Pages 111-150

  7. Faust and Technological Fulfillment

    • J. M. van der Laan
    Pages 151-168

  8. Frankenstein and Technological Failure

    • J. M. van der Laan
    Pages 169-185

  9. Movies, Machines, and Human Beings

    • J. M. van der Laan
    Pages 187-202

  10. Advertising Technology

    • J. M. van der Laan
    Pages 203-219

  11. The Transformation of Narrative

    • J. M. van der Laan
    Pages 221-236

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 237-278
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About this book

This book documents and investigates the stories we have told and continue to tell about technology-now the dominant feature of our civilization-in fiction, non-fiction, film, and advertising. It answers important questions about the meanings people ascribe to technology, the hopes and fears we express in the different narratives, the effect of those narratives upon us, and the new forms of myth those narratives represent. Narratives of Technology offers an approach grounded in the humanities, adding another perspective to that of social scientists and technologists.  

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Illinois State University, Normal, USA

    J. M. van der Laan

About the author

J. M. van der Laan is Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Illinois State University, USA.  His various publications address a wide range of topics such as printing in the first hundred years after Gutenberg, eighteenth-century essays, nineteenth-century science fiction, and technology in contemporary culture and society.    

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