Postmodern Sublime : Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk /

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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.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Tabbi, Joseph, 1960- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Andrae, A.
Mailer, Norman > Critique et interpretation.
Roman.
Letterkunde.
Amerikaans.
Het sublieme.
Postmodernisme.
Fictie.
Technologie.
Technik
Technik > Motiv
Postmoderne
Literatur
Das Erhabene
Technology in literature.
Sublime, The, in literature.
Postmodernism (Literature)
Literature and technology.
American literature.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > History.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Postmodernisme (Litterature) > États-Unis.
Litterature et technologie > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Technologie dans la litterature.
Sublime dans la litterature.
Postmodernisme (Litterature)
Litterature et technologie.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle.
American literature > 20th century.
Postmodernism (Literature) > United States.
Literature and technology > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
USA.
USA
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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