Postmodern Sublime
Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk
1st Edition
Published on 31. May 2018
256 pages
978-1-5017-1764-2 (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.
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English
Place of publication
NY
United States
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Digital original
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978-1-5017-1764-2 (9781501717642)
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Joseph Tabbi is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is editor of the Electronic Book Review.
Joseph Tabbi is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is editor of the Electronic Book Review.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Machine as Metaphor and More Than Metaphor
- 1 Mailer's Psychology of Machines: Of a Fire on the Moon
- 2 "Alpha, Omega" and the Sublime Object of Technology
- 3 Meteors of Style: Gravity's Rainbow
- 4 Technology and Identity in the Pökier Story, or The Uses of Uncertainty
- 5 Literature as Technology: Joseph McElroy's Plus
- 6 Fiction at a Distance: The Compositional Self in "Midcourse Corrections" and Women and Men
- 7 From the Sublime to the Beautiful to the Political: Don DeLillo at Midcareer
- Epilogue: Postmodern Mergers, Cyberpunk Fictions
- Works Cited
- Index
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