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The Newberry Seminar on technology, Politics, and Culture, co-sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago, Roosvelt University, and Northwestern University present:
"Language Matters: Explaining Events in the Modern Murder Novel"
Stephen Kern, Northern Illinois University
Friday, February 15, 2002, 3:30-5:00 pm
Theories of causation in the human science have changed markedly in the past century and a half. This essay analyzes these changes by using modern novels as a source. In particular, it demonstrates how in the twentieth century novelists - influenced, in part, by developments in linguistics - began to invest language with greater causal significance. In so doing, it expands our understanding of technology to embrace language itself.
The seminar format assumes that all participants have read the essay in advance, and that all those requesting a paper will attend the seminar.
Please do not request a paper unless you plan to attend.
When requesting a paper, please specify hard copy or e-mail attachment; we prefer the latter.
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