Postmodern Sublime : : Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk / / 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.
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Tabbi, Joseph, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Postmodern Sublime : Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk / Joseph Tabbi. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©1996 1 online resource (256 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) History Of Science. History. LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501717642 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501717642 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501717642/original |
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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 |
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