Postmodern Sublime
Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk
Published on 14. November 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-8014-8383-7 (ISBN)
Description
Focusing on works by Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, Joseph McElroy, and Don DeLillo, Joseph Tabbi finds that a simultaneous attraction to and repulsion from technology has produced a powerful new mode of modern writing-the technological sublime.
Reviews / Votes
Postmodern Sublime achieves the same goal it sets out for the writers it studies: to move readers.... An intellectual page-turner, this book represents an important and profound insight into the latest incarnation of the 'sacred national order,' the technological sublime, and how one might live with it.(Review of Contemporary Fiction)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8014-8383-7 (9780801483837)
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E-Book
05/2018
1st Edition
Cornell University Press
€162.99
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Person
Joseph Tabbi is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is editor of the Electronic Book Review.