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Writers like Bram Stoker, James Joyce, Denis Johnston, and Elizabeth Bowen engage with adjacent media in their fiction and non-fiction in order to broach the question of whether a group of agents who repurpose the conventions of multiple media can sustain an ideal of immediacy. Ultimately, disagreements, inefficiencies, and hesitations reinstantiate the interposing medium and professional and social connections that surround it, which leads these authors to embrace hypermediated communication. A focus on literature’s self-reflexive engagement with the human networks of communication serves to shift media-inflected scholarly criticism away from a long-held commitment to medium specificity, which can sometimes miss how adjacent fields draw upon each other. Moreover, this dissertation seek to widen the range of activities included under the umbrella of literary labor: the assertion that creative agency is not solely the possession of authors–but also includes the contributions of engineers, operators, printers, and crews–represents a version of modernism that values the collaboration of novices as much as the singular masterwork."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Intermediation: Technology, Immediacy, and Noise in Modern Literature"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Keane, Damien","English"],"dc:creator":["Lakoff, Jeremy; 0000-0002-9700-8206"],"dc:date":["2019-07-26T18:16:55Z","2019","2019-05-14 12:40:09"],"dc:description":["Ph.D.","Intermediation: Technology, Immediacy, and Noise in Modern Literature posits that early twentieth century literature interrogates its own medial status by comparing authorship to the operation of emergent communication technologies. 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