Leo Marx: The Machine in the Garden. Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (New York 1964) Chapter 1: "Sleepy Hollow, 1844" Leo Marx" The Machine in the Garden is considered one of the landmarks in American cultural/literary studies. ... In chapter 1, Marx establishes his basic thesis: the intrusion of the machine into the natural idyllic (bucolic) landscape is a constitutive motif in American "culture" (here, his conceptual definition is rather blurred, cf. p.4: "the region where literature, general ideas, and certain products of the collective imagination meet"). ... It is here,...

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Leo Marx: The Machine in the Garden. Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America (New York 1964) Chapter 1: "Sleepy Hollow, 1844" Leo Marx" The Machine in the Garden is considered one of the landmarks in American cultural/literary studies. ... In chapter 1, Marx establishes his basic thesis: the intrusion of the machine into the natural idyllic (bucolic) landscape is a constitutive motif in American "culture" (here, his conceptual definition is rather blurred, cf. p.4: "the region where literature, general ideas, and certain products of the collective imagination meet"). ... It is here,...

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He withdrew so he could spend time educating his children because he disagreed with the education given to children at school. ... By the time he was seventeen he wrote an essay on conic sections, which is, a work in projective geometry that contained a theorem on conic sections that was named after him. At the age of eighteen Pascal invented the adding machine, which is now known as the calculator. ... The principles of this adding machine were extended into a hand-cranked calculator during the 18th and 19th century, and by the 20th century, the electronic computer began to replace th...

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Science fiction is a genre of literature that is very hard to define because it varies drastically in themes. ... Science fiction is how the world one day may look and most of the time it is the worse case scenario, where technology plays an important role in society. ... Wells, "The Time Machine: an invention" written in 1895 and "The War of the Worlds" written in 1898. ... The first time they emerged was in Hugo Gernsback's magazine "Wonder Stories", after "Amazing Stories" had disappeared. ... Science fiction was seen as serious literature, perhaps because people thought that it c...

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While Marinetti perhaps initially had intentions of following a legal career, his passion was for literature and poetry. ... By 1900 he had decided to devote himself entirely to Italian and French literature and poetry. ... Marinetti was on a personal crusade to liberate poetry and literature from the constraints of traditional punctuation and syntax and, from the very beginning, he used Poesia to launch the idea of verso libero (free verse). ... The movement's theorist, he glorified danger, war and violence, the love of speed and the wonder of the machine age. .....

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Does a Film Genre Change Over Time? "Science fiction is that branch of literature that deals with human responses to changes in the level of science and technology" - Isaac Asimov When looking at Science Fiction I believe as a genre, it most certainly has changed over time. ... The film makers tend to base their films upon the issues that concern people at the time. ... Science Fiction as a genre has changed in turn with current affairs of the time. ... Similarly James Cameron's "The Terminator" tells the story of the imminent Judgment day, when mans own creation (the machine) will ...

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Art, Literature and Society from 1955-1970 Fear and Loathing in a Clockwork Age Ah! ... The post-war generation developed an interesting love-hate relationship with the mass culture of it's time. ... The sexual, spiritual, and intellectual freedom and autonomy that characterized the Haight-Ashberry scene were closer to the Whitmanesque ideal than anything achieved during his life time. ... The war machine of WW2 had given many women their first pay check. ...

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Oscar attended the Portora Royal School at Enniskillen where he grew a passion for Greek and Roman literature. ... In Wilde's time, the practice of homosexuality was a criminal offense. ... And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, the motion is no more. ... The Aesthetic Movement, which coincided with the Industrial Revolution at the end of the nineteenth century, emphasized the artistic aspect of a man's work in producing a variety of goods, from furniture to machines to literature Oscar Wilde, however, proposed that the principles of the Aesthetic Movement ...

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National Literature Before the war of 1812, there was basically no true American literature besides political essays. ... By 1820, literature could finally be supported as a profession. ... Most of the time, the new immigrants were treated horribly by the Americans. ... The Factory System and Market Economy British inventors perfected a series of machines for the mass production of textiles in 1750. ... America was much slower to embrace the machine than other countries in Europe. ...

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This is because much of Bradbury's literature has to do with illusory ideas. ... Fahrenheit 451, which is sometimes just referred to as Fahrenheit, is one of Bradbury's most famous pieces of literature. ... After Montag leaves the technological city, he goes into the forest and meets the "book people" who further show him that the machines of the city are negative and bad and nature and the Earth is pleasant and proper. ... Ray Bradbury has experienced or has realized many other circumstances having to do with censorship of his own literature as well as the literature of others. ...

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Chaplins character is a proletarian, a man defined by his labour in much the same way as a machine. ... In Walter Benjamins essay "The Flaneur" the author suggests that the first literary endeavor of this new species of city dweller was "panorama literature" or "physiologies". ... The only other time in the film he is given an identity that isn't a job is when he is in jail. ... He has been doing this for so long that even when it comes time for him to break for lunch he has taken on the twitching rhythms of his machine. ... This meant that their primary interest was to pass the time as ...

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But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience. ... Raine is encouraging us to appreciate the delicate wealth and richness, joy and sadness that literature can bring us and to not be void or lacking of emotion in our haste. ... "But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience." Time is personified as it "[ticks] with impatience". ... The alien has shown us, through seeing these impediments for the first time, an appreciation of something long known beautiful, but now clearly seen for the first time....

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But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience. ... Raine is encouraging us to appreciate the delicate wealth and richness, joy and sadness that literature can bring us and to not be void or lacking of emotion in our haste. ... "But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience." Time is personified as it "[ticks] with impatience". ... The alien has shown us, through seeing these impediments for the first time, an appreciation of something long known beautiful, but now clearly seen for the first time....

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One critic writes, "The democratic institutions which might have provided a means of change have all been bought off by the "Machine." ... Democracy does not help anyone apart from its institution at this point in time. ... Sinclair writes, "...it was the task of Socialists to teach and organize them for the time when they were to seize the huge machine called the Beef Trust..." (317). ... Modern American Literature. 4th ed. ... American Literature in the Twentieth Century. ...

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The original is a masterpiece of Gothic literature however. ... There are some among us who believe it possible to create machines that can think and maybe even feel like us. Which does raise some disturbing questions of whether we should really want robots or machines to think and feel like we do. Frankenstein contains elements of two major genre of literature: the gothic and science fiction. ... Mary Shelley used some of the most recent technological finding of her time to create Frankenstein. ...

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The "Clock Jack" was a mechanical figure that could strike time on a bell with its axe. ... However, it is literature where human kinds vivid imagination has often reflected our fascination with the idea of creating artificial life. ... For Shelly, a robot looked like man but had the ability to function like a machine. ... From that time there has been a proliferation of work in autonomous driving machines that cruise at highway speeds and navigate outdoor terrains in commercial applications. ... The day when all dangerous or hated jobs are performed by machines not people. ...

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These themes highlighted are relevant to any society, civilization or era - and that's the beauty of Shakespearean literature. ... Immortality Shakespeare, like many sonneteers, portrays time as an enemy of love. ... Time passes. ... The speaker of Sonnet 18 is absolutely fixated on fate and mortality, but believes he's come up with an effective time machine: poetry. ... Man, in the natural world, can't avoid being subject to time, but it is through literature, through this very poem, that he can free himself. ...

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It is the battle of two sides made of trained fighting machines, previously known as young men, many of whom do not understand for what they are fighting. These feelings of war have carried through to future generations as well; young people of today have not experienced a war first hand, but can still relate to these feelings and emotions with the help of descriptive texts in literature. ... He then realizes that he is no longer an individual man, but a trained killing machine. ... Until a recent tragedy in America, children may have never experienced what a time of war felt like. ...

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However, during this decade, a literary explosion of Latin American literature took place named "The Boom." El Boom "was simply the discovery of a new literary language in which to express Latin American reality with, for the first time, complete authenticity1." ... There are many reasons why the "Boom" literature occurred when it did. ... One of the common conflicts that emerged from the "Boom" literature was the age-old battle between good vs. evil. ... The workers are slaughter and "become cut off all around like an onion being peeled by the insatiable and methodical shears of the machi...

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Leonardo studied anatomy, astronomy, botany and geology, and he designed machines and drew plans for hundreds of inventions. ... Many of the ideas and designs Leonardo preserved in his notebooks were far ahead of their time. ... For example, he had no interest what so ever in history, literature or religion, which may have been the reason why most of his inventions were never fully developed. ... He also stated that he could build ships as well as armoured vehicles, catapults and other war machines. ... He served the duke greatly in Milan for many years, whilst doing many various pain...

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By the time of the First World War there was a whole new generation of young soldiers who not only could read but, very important, were able for the first time in the history of war to write letters home describing war in all its unheroic horror. ... Before 1914, English literature and ideas were in many ways still harking back to the nineteenth century: after 1918, Modern begins to define the twentieth century. ... Auden will probably still be read in a hundred years' time. ... There is also the fact that there is much more literature, more cultural production in general, in the twentie...

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Dissatisfied with the shoe trade, he took up acting and studied literature, grammar, and speech. ... But at the time, the idea of hearing voices coming from a machine, rather than a person, seemed like a miracle. ... "Alexander Graham Bell also had to fight in court, this time to maintain his claim that he was the inventor of the telephone. ... In 1888 he came up with the telautograph, a telegraph-based machine that could transmit patterns of dots and lines on paper "a very early attempt at the fax machine.""... At the same time, all telephones in the United States went quiet for one mi...

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In addition, the Church of Christ in Christian Union preached a strict moral code which forbade drinking, dancing, movies, swimming, swearing, popular literature, and moral injunctions against violence and war. ... On September 12th, the Division engaged the enemy for the first time in the St. ... Fearlessly leading 7 men, he charged with great daring a machine gun nest which was pouring deadly and incessant fire upon his platoon. In this heroic feat the machine gun nest was taken, together with 4 officers and 128 men and several guns. ... Because the Church of Christ in Christian Union cond...

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The industrial revolution was a time of drastic change and transformation from hand tools, and hand made items to machine manufactured and mass produced goods. ... The government, the arts, literature, music and architecture and man's way of looking at life all changed during the period. ... They were priezed by the factory owners because their small size permitted them to crawl among the machines to carry out repairs. ... This was extremely dangerous as the children were expected to carry out the task while the machine was still working. ...

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Beowulf with fourteen companions sets sail and goes to the Danes to attempt to slay the evil meat eating machine. ... Beowulf illustrates some important aspects of time and history. ... With the exception of a few reminiscences and indirect reference by various characters, the setting concluding Beowulf's return from Denmark to his homeland handles time in a basically linear manner, leaving no question on the chronology of events that unravel in the poem. ... It is unlike any other poem in English literature or any other Germanic literature, and Tolkien's description of Beowulf as a ...

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