Newsreels, Novels, and Cybernetics: Reading the Random Patterns of John Dos Passos's U.S.A.
The novels of Dos Passos's U.S.A.trilogy (1930/1932/1936) are part of a cultural dialogue about the status of communication and information-processing in the early twentieth century. This dialogue includes cybernetics theories, which align information with both pattern and randomness. In Dos Passos'...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Modern Literature Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 112 - 132 |
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Indiana University Press
Winter2017
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