Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Machines, Computers, and the Liberal Humanist Subject
- 1 Losing Ground to the Machine: Electronic Brains in the Works of Heinrich Hauser and Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- 2 Fearing the Machine — Two Nightmares in the 1990s: Gerd Heidenreich's New Riddle of the Sphinx and Barbara Frischmuth's Hidden Meaning
- 3 Becoming the Machine: Günter Grass's and Erich Loest's Virtual History, René Pollesch's Postdramatic Imaginings, and “Real” Cyber-Relationships according to Christine Eichel and Daniel Glattauer
- Conclusion: Questions to Ponder
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Machines, Computers, and the Liberal Humanist Subject
- 1 Losing Ground to the Machine: Electronic Brains in the Works of Heinrich Hauser and Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- 2 Fearing the Machine — Two Nightmares in the 1990s: Gerd Heidenreich's New Riddle of the Sphinx and Barbara Frischmuth's Hidden Meaning
- 3 Becoming the Machine: Günter Grass's and Erich Loest's Virtual History, René Pollesch's Postdramatic Imaginings, and “Real” Cyber-Relationships according to Christine Eichel and Daniel Glattauer
- Conclusion: Questions to Ponder
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- We Are the MachineThe Computer, the Internet, and Information in Contemporary German Literature, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009