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Beyond the Word challenges the reader to reconsider the role of artistic expression as cultural production within today’s society, and questions many key aspects of contemporary critical thought. Donald Theall centres his discussion around the theoretical implication of the work of James Joyce, who he posits as ‘poetical engineer’ whose works show how poetry and art have always provided society with a means of communication about societal and technological change. Today’s artist, as exemplified by Joyce, explores a myriad of possibilities for communication in a new world of technology, electrification, and mechanization, by developing a multimedia language that is simultaneously oral, graphic, and polysemic. This causes an ‘unbinding of textuality,’ freeing the concept of text from its original connections with manuscripts and books, and leading so the total involvement of multimedia virtual reality.

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      Publisher: University of Toronto Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 12/15/1995 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781487585044, 978-1487585044
      ISBN10: 1487585047
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      Book Synopsis

      Beyond the Word challenges the reader to reconsider the role of artistic expression as cultural production within today’s society, and questions many key aspects of contemporary critical thought. Donald Theall centres his discussion around the theoretical implication of the work of James Joyce, who he posits as ‘poetical engineer’ whose works show how poetry and art have always provided society with a means of communication about societal and technological change. Today’s artist, as exemplified by Joyce, explores a myriad of possibilities for communication in a new world of technology, electrification, and mechanization, by developing a multimedia language that is simultaneously oral, graphic, and polysemic. This causes an ‘unbinding of textuality,’ freeing the concept of text from its original connections with manuscripts and books, and leading so the total involvement of multimedia virtual reality.

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