Add to ORKGIn addition to being a landmark of engineering, the train has become a powerful symbol in literature and art. The social and creative influence of a machine illuminates just how deeply science and engineering are connected to our culture, our perspectives, and our humanity. With a background in mechanical engineering, this interdisciplinary research was conducted by examining and discussing works of literature, art, and film that describe how people have felt about and interacted with the railroad. It includes works created from the industrial era to modern times: excerpts from industrial-era novels, Victorian diaries, early films, and recent sci-fi movies. The breadth of the research reveals the dynamic meanings of trains, and their influe...
Railway travel has had a significant influence on modern theatre’s sense of space and time. Early in...
This project began with a few personal aims, to work with illustration as a vehicle for change, a...
In late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain, there was widespread fascination with the te...
Since the 19th century railways have been a widely acknowledged symbol of progress and confidence in...
A revelatory, entertaining account of the world\u27s most indispensable mode of transportation Tom Z...
PhDLiteratureUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib...
Since the publication of Leo Marx\u27s The Machine in the Garden (1964), the train has become a wel...
Since the publication of Leo Marx\u27s The Machine in the Garden (1964), the train has become a wel...
Since the publication of Leo Marx\u27s The Machine in the Garden (1964), the train has become a wel...
ABSTRACTRailroad Poetics: Infrastructure, Stories, WorldmakingByGeoffrey Kyle Bucy In Media Ecologie...
In much of American literature in the second half of the nineteenth century, the railroad and the pr...
The focus of this thesis is Hart Crane’s The Bridge (1930), a work that examines America’s early twe...
This practice-led PhD is concerned with the subject matter of contemporary art. It proposes methods ...
After decades of playing second fiddle to cars and planes, trains seem to be making a comeback in Eu...
In much of American literature in the second half of the nineteenth century, the railroad and the pr...
Railway travel has had a significant influence on modern theatre’s sense of space and time. Early in...
This project began with a few personal aims, to work with illustration as a vehicle for change, a...
In late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain, there was widespread fascination with the te...
Since the 19th century railways have been a widely acknowledged symbol of progress and confidence in...
A revelatory, entertaining account of the world\u27s most indispensable mode of transportation Tom Z...
PhDLiteratureUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib...
Since the publication of Leo Marx\u27s The Machine in the Garden (1964), the train has become a wel...
Since the publication of Leo Marx\u27s The Machine in the Garden (1964), the train has become a wel...
Since the publication of Leo Marx\u27s The Machine in the Garden (1964), the train has become a wel...
ABSTRACTRailroad Poetics: Infrastructure, Stories, WorldmakingByGeoffrey Kyle Bucy In Media Ecologie...
In much of American literature in the second half of the nineteenth century, the railroad and the pr...
The focus of this thesis is Hart Crane’s The Bridge (1930), a work that examines America’s early twe...
This practice-led PhD is concerned with the subject matter of contemporary art. It proposes methods ...
After decades of playing second fiddle to cars and planes, trains seem to be making a comeback in Eu...
In much of American literature in the second half of the nineteenth century, the railroad and the pr...
Railway travel has had a significant influence on modern theatre’s sense of space and time. Early in...
This project began with a few personal aims, to work with illustration as a vehicle for change, a...
In late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain, there was widespread fascination with the te...