Hayles, N. Katherine. <br/><br/>
My mother was a computer :  digital subjects and literary texts / 
N. Katherine Hayles. 
 - Chicago :  University of Chicago Press,  2005. 
 - x, 290 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-278) and index. 
<br/><br/>Prologue: computing kin -- Part I. Making: language and code. Intermediation: textuality and the regime of computation ; Speech, writing, code: three worldviews ; The dream of information: escape and constraint in the bodies of three fictions -- Part II. Storing: print and etext. Translating media ; Performative code and figurative language: Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon ; Flickering connectivities in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork girl -- Part III. Transmitting: analog and digital. (Un)masking the agent: Stanislaw Lem's "The mask" ; Simulating narratives: what virtual creatures can teach us ; Subjective cosmology and the regime of computation: intermediation in Greg Egan's fiction -- Epilogue: recursion and emergence. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0226321479 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226321479 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226321487 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780226321486 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005006276 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA566786  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013269397  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human-computer interaction.<br/>Computers in literature.<br/>Virtual reality.<br/>American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Q342  / .H39 2005