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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tabbi, Joseph, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology in literature.

Sublime, The, in literature.

Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.

Postmodernism (Literature).

Literature and technology--United States--History--20th century.

Literature and technology.

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

American literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 243 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-238) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-1764-2

OCLC:

1080549981