Intro to Literary Study (2005)


4 Feb 2005
Forster, ''The Machine Stops''

Download from : "brighton.ncsa.uiuc.edu".

It's a longer story, in three sections -- about 25 pages when printed out.

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Will the Machine Ever Stop?
Excerpt: I love the story The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster. What is nifty-est (it's been a long day!) about the piece is the relevance to today's society! This story was written in 1909, loooong before computers were even imagined and...
Weblog: Literary Tease
Tracked: February 3, 2005 09:51 PM
Will the Machine Ever Stop?
Excerpt: I love the story The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster. What is nifty-est (it's been a long day!) about the piece is the relevance to today's society! This story was written in 1909, loooong before computers were even imagined and...
Weblog: Literary Tease
Tracked: February 3, 2005 09:51 PM
"The Machine Stops"
Excerpt: I was surprised (in a good way mind you) when I read The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster. As soon as I saw that the story is twenty-some pages when printed out, I thought, “What sort of story is this?...
Weblog: Special K
Tracked: February 3, 2005 10:12 PM
Stopping the Machine
Excerpt: The story, The Machine Stops struck me as a response to the sudden increase in media and argues many points in accordance to behaviorism, which was gaining popularity around that time. Themes such as the directly observable seem parallel to...
Weblog: Color in a Lurid World
Tracked: February 4, 2005 02:16 PM
The Machine Stops
Excerpt: This really was a story that I didn't understand entirely the first time that I read it over, and thats partly because of the manner in which it was told. We are only given a few bits of exposition and...
Weblog: Roamer's Zone
Tracked: February 10, 2005 07:50 PM
Taking you back, oh, a MONTH...
Excerpt: When I read E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops," the first thing that I thought of was the hours I spend on my computer a night, and I was worried......
Weblog: She Never Could Decide
Tracked: March 2, 2005 03:23 PM
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We were supposed to read and respond to this story for tomorrow (Friday), right? I don't see any blog entries on it yet, and it's making me nervous, thinking I did the wrong assignment. Were we supposed to do the shorty story for tomorrow instead, or something?

Posted by: ChrisU at February 3, 2005 08:07 PM

Yes, the story is what's assigned.

I'm a bit puzzled by the lack of responses, too. Oh, well, the night is young... I guess.

Posted by: Dennis G. Jerz at February 3, 2005 09:02 PM

Oh, thank God! I spent a long time working on this story! Then, I saw a modernism assignment on the agenda and I panicked. I could have sworn you assigned us a short story to write.

Posted by: Evan at February 3, 2005 09:30 PM
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