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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Programming literature
  name:
    name part: Roach, Rebecca
    name part: 1983-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 224 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: This is a book about the messy, archival worlds of literature and computing and the myriad of relations that have existed between the two. Before J. M. Coetzee was a writer of Nobel-Prize winning novels, the South African was a programmer for one of the most significant Cold War supercomputer projects in Britain. Experimental British writer Christine Brooke-Rose worked at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing. When not opining about modernism, Canadian literary critic Hugh Kenner was a devoted computer hobbyist. Literary scholars have often not known what to make of these 'other careers.' Intimidating, irrelevant, outside of the scope of literary studies, surely? When they do make links, it is often via the frame of formal logic that has dominated discussions of both computer history and literary modernism. This book starts from a different assumption, that, far from irrelevant, these material experiences were significant in the development of the literary projects of writers including Coetzee, Brooke-Rose, Kenner, William Gaddis and Kamau Brathwaite. It contends that it is in the practice and the archive, rather than on the plane of abstraction, that we can best see this influence. Addressing literary scholars, media and computer historians and digital theorists alike, Programming Literature productively reframes contemporary debates around artificial intelligence, the value of the humanities and tech culture by emphasizing just how material these worlds have always been.
  table of contents: J.M. Coetzee's aesthetic automatism -- Hugh Kenner's hobby -- $ t Christine Brooke-Rose's Towers of Babel -- Kamau Braithwaite : Creolized computing and processual aesthetics -- William Gaddis, technical writer.
  note: Rebecca Roach.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-202) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Brathwaite, Kamau
      name part: 1930-2020
    topic: Knowledge and learning
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Brooke-Rose, Christine
      name part: 1923-2012
    topic: Knowledge and learning
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Coetzee, J. M
      name part: 1940-
    topic: Knowledge and learning
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Gaddis, William
      name part: 1922-1998
    topic: Knowledge and learning
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kenner, Hugh
    topic: Knowledge and learning
  subject:
    topic: Literature and technology
  subject:
    topic: Computers in literature
  subject:
    topic: Literature
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: PN56.T37 R63 2025
  classification: 809.93356
  identifier: 9780198976561
  identifier: 0198976569
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 251105
    record change date: 20260710204602.7
    record identifier: in00005693564