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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Tabbi, Joseph,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501717642; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501717642
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Joseph Tabbi.

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.