New media and the transformation of postmodern American literature : from cage to connection / Casey Michael Henry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henry, Casey (Casey Michael), author.

Series:

New horizons in contemporary writing

Standardized Title:

Both into and out of the cage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.

Postmodernism (Literature).

United States.

Digital media--Social aspects.

Digital media.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vi, 208 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

"How has American literature after postmodernism responded to the digital age? Drawing on insights from contemporary media theory, this is the first book to explore the explosion of new media technologies as an animating context for contemporary American literature. Casey Michael Henry examines the intertwining histories of new media forms since the 1970s and literary postmodernism and its aftermath, from William Gaddis's J R and Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho through to David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Through these histories, the book charts the ways in which print-based postmodern writing at first resisted new mass media forms and ultimately came to respond to them"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. The inoperable machine : a media history of late postmodernism

The tiny box wherein everything is solved : new media narrative, communication technology, and the conversation

Grooves on the feeling knob : systematic transgression in William T. Vollmann's The rainbow stories and Bret Easton Ellis's American psycho

"Way closer to the soul than mere tastelessness can get" : David Foster Wallace and transcendent extra-textuality.

Notes:

Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--City University of New York, 2016, titled Both into and out of the cage : new media, transgression, and the remaking of American literary connection, 1975-1999.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Henry, Casey (Casey Michael), author. New media and the transformation of postmodern American literature

ISBN:

9781350064966

1350064963

OCLC:

1035301214