The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet
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Still more surprising, in Rosenheim's view, Poe is not merely a source for such literary instances of cryptography as the codes in Conan Doyle's "The Dancing-Men" or in Jules Verne, but, through his effect on real cryptographers, Poe's writing influenced the outcome of World War II and the development of the Cold War. However unlikely such ideas sound, The Cryptographic Imagination offers compelling evidence that Poe's cryptographic writing clarifies one important avenue by which the twentieth century called itself into being.
"The strength of Rosenheim's work extends to a revisionistic understanding of the entirety of literary history (as a repression of cryptography) and then, in a breathtaking shift of register, interlinks Poe's exercises in cryptography with the hyperreality of the CIA, the Cold War, and the Internet. What enables this extensive range of applications is the stipulated tension Rosenheim discerns in the relationship between the forms of the literary imagination and the condition of its mode of production. Cryptography, in this account, names the technology of literary production—the diacritical relationship between decoding and encoding—that the literary imagination dissimulates as hieroglyphics—the hermeneutic relationship between a sign and its content."—Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781421437156 |
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Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Publication date: | 03/24/2020 |
Series: | Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society |
Pages: | 282 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: GenresChapter 1: The King of Secret Readers Chapter 2: Secret Writing as Alchemy: Recoding DefoeChapter 3: Detective Fiction and the Analytic Sublime Chapter 4: Dark Fiber: Cryptography, Telegraphy, Science FictionPart 2: EffectsChapter 5: Resurrexi: Poe in the Crypt of Lizzie DotenChapter 6: Deciphering the Cold War: Toward a Literary History of Espionage Chapter 7: Ciphering the Net Coda: Strange Loops and Talking BirdsAppendix: Public-Key Cryptography Notes Glossary IndexWhat People are Saying About This
The strength of Rosenheim's work extends to a revisionistic understanding of the entirety of literary history (as a repression of cryptography) and then, in a breathtaking shift of register, interlinks Poe's exercises in cryptography with the hyperreality of the CIA, the Cold War, and the Internet. What enables this extensive range of applications is the stipulated tension Rosenheim discerns in the relationship between the forms of the literary imagination and the condition of its mode of production. Cryptography, in this account, names the technology of literary production—the diacritical relationship between decoding and encoding—that the literary imagination dissimulates as hieroglyphics—the hermeneutic relationship between a sign and its content.
The strength of Rosenheim's work extends to a revisionistic understanding of the entirety of literary history (as a repression of cryptography) and then, in a breathtaking shift of register, interlinks Poe's exercises in cryptography with the hyperreality of the CIA, the Cold War, and the Internet. What enables this extensive range of applications is the stipulated tension Rosenheim discerns in the relationship between the forms of the literary imagination and the condition of its mode of production. Cryptography, in this account, names the technology of literary production—the diacritical relationship between decoding and encoding—that the literary imagination dissimulates as hieroglyphics—the hermeneutic relationship between a sign and its content.—Donald E. Pease, Dartmouth College