The Modernist Typewriter
The typewriter was a modern machine. It signified progress, a technological triumph that would bring an end to drudgery (even if, in practice, thousands of female typists found that drudgery had many faces). The typewriter heralded a modern world where transactions could be accomplished faster and m...
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| Abstract | The typewriter was a modern machine. It signified progress, a technological triumph that would bring an end to drudgery (even if, in practice, thousands of female typists found that drudgery had many faces). The typewriter heralded a modern world where transactions could be accomplished faster and more efficiently than ever before. It had revolutionized the office, and it would also change the nature of other forms of writing. American poet Hart Crane warned in 1930,“Unless poetry can absorb the machine, i.e. acclimatize it as naturally and as casually as trees, cattle, galleons, castles and all other human associations of the |
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