The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology

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Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein that effectively reinvented the meaning of the word for modern English. It was then Marshall McLuhan's media theory and its adaptations in Canadian popular culture that popularized, even globalized, a...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1771992247

ISBN13:9781771992244

Release Date:August 2018

Publisher:Athabasca University Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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Engineering Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences Technology

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The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology

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