Coyne, Richard, <br/><br/>
Technoromanticism :  digital narrative, holism, and the romance of the real / 
Richard Coyne. 
 - x, 398 pages ;  23 cm. 
 - Leonardo .
 - Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.) .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Series Foreword --  Preface --  Introduction --  Unity: How IT Narratives Attempt to Transcend the Material Realm --  Digital Utopias --  Cybernetic Rapture --  Multiplicity: The Empiricist Tradition of Realism, and Its Critics --  The Empiricist Legacy --  The Symbolic Order --  Pragmatics of Cyberspace --  Ineffability: How Contemporary Narratives of Fractured Identities Challenge Technoromanticism --  Oedipus in Cyberspace --  Schizophrenia and Suspicion --  Technoromantic Narratives --  Notes --  References --  Index.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8. 
<br/><br/> The author explores the spectrum of romantic narrative that pervades the digital age, from McLuhan's utopian vision of social reintegration by electronic communications to the claims of cyberspace to offer new realities. Populating these narratives are cyborgs, computerized agents, avatars and characters that have putative digital identities. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0262032600 9780262032605 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>99021241 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Holism<br/>Romanticism<br/>Computers and civilization<br/>Information technology--Social aspects.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>T58.5  / .C687 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.46