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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Tabbi, Joseph, 1960- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 Pokler 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.