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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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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