Narratives of Technology

J. M. van der Laan is Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Illinois State University, USA.  His various publications address a wide range of topics such as printing in the first hundred years after Gutenberg, eighteenth-century essays, nineteenth-century science fiction, and technology in contemporary culture and society.

• Preface.- 1 The Reality of Technology.- 2 Narrative and Myth.- 3 The Dominant Narrative.- 4 A Counter-Narrative.- 5 Literary Narratives.- 6 Faust and Technological Fulfillment.- 7 Frankenstein and Technological Failure.- 8 Movies, Machines, and Human Beings.- 9 Advertising Technology.- 10 The Transformation of Narrative