Beyond Posthuman

[...] modest and reversible the act of translation might at first appear, it is never as modest or as reversible as it pretends. [...] Clarke's project to upgrade the field of narratology by translating it into the language of neocybernetics-variously presented as a "[r]ediscription of mai...

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Published inTwentieth century literature Vol. 55; no. 4; pp. 618 - 623
Main Author Milburn, Colin
Format Journal Article Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Durham Duke University Press 01.12.2009
Hofstra University
Duke University Press, NC & IL
Subjects
Alignment
Butler, Octavia E
Communications networks
Cybernetics
Human subjects
Lem, Stanislaw
Literary Criticism
Literary Theory
Literature and Literary Studies
Narratives
Pynchon, Thomas
Reviews
System theory
Translation
Wells, H G (1866-1946)
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ISSN0041-462X
2325-8101
DOI10.1215/0041462X-2009-1008

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Summary:[...] modest and reversible the act of translation might at first appear, it is never as modest or as reversible as it pretends. [...] Clarke's project to upgrade the field of narratology by translating it into the language of neocybernetics-variously presented as a "[r]ediscription of mainstream narrative theory . . . through second-order systems concepts" (7) and a "productive alignment of narratological with systems-theoretical distinctions" (31)-is necessarily more than redescription, more than alignment of two equivalent vocabularies.
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ISSN:0041-462X
2325-8101
DOI:10.1215/0041462X-2009-1008