Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 243 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0801430747
,
0801483832
,
1501717642
,
9780801430749
,
9780801483837
,
9781501717642
Content:
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
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238) and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tabbi, Joseph, 1960- Postmodern sublime Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995
Language:
English
URL:
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