Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric Paperback - 2000 - 1st Edition
by Daniel Tiffany
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"In this bold, speculative, and immensely learned study . . . Tiffany['s concept of] lyric substance--the 'sense' of materiality supplied to us by poets like Wallace Stevens and Marianne Moore--constitutes a world whose inaccessibility is legitimized by the principles of scientific materialism. Thus lyric, too long on the periphery of materialist discourse, emerges as being squarely in its center."--Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University, author of The Futurist Moment and Wittgenstein's Ladder
"A lyrical inquiry into the circle of ideas: materialism, science, poetics. Winding through the whole is a fascinating exploration of toys--children's toys, physicists' toy models, philosophers' robots, nuclear weaponeers' toy towns. . . . My hope is that this book will contribute to a growing interest not in cleaving science from the arts but rather in exploring, poetically, the language, images and things that illuminate both." --Peter Galison, Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and Physics, Harvard University
"A brilliant achievement, synthesizing the history of science and poetics, technology and the arts, in an iconology of materialism. . . All that is solid melts into air in this book, but just as quickly the airy poems of our climate condense into material, objective forms, weird gadgets, and objects of scientific research. . . A wonderful feast of learning and wit." --W. J. T. Mitchell, University of Chicago, author of Picture Theory and Iconology
"In clear-eyed and gorgeous prose, Toy Medium moves the question of Art's encounter with Science to an utterly original point of conflagration: where matter is mostly not matter. . . . Going to the bottom of the Imagination, where it still truly involves images, Tiffany explores how we have learned to see the inscrutable via our imagistic grasp of materiality. . . . This book is daring, brilliant, and deeply clever."--Jorie Graham, Boylston Professor of English, Harvard University, author of Materialism and winner of the Pulitzer Prize
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- Title Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric
- Author Daniel Tiffany
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 351
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
- Date 2000-03-08
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780520219229 / 0520219228
- Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
- Dimensions 9.07 x 6.07 x 1 in (23.04 x 15.42 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Materialism in literature, Literature and science - History - 20th
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99020033
- Dewey Decimal Code 809.14
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- Choice, 09/01/2000, Page 122
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