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Postmodern Sublime : Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk /
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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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- 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 Pokier 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