technology and American writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk /
Joseph Tabbi.
Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1995.
1 online resource (xii, 243 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238) and index.
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.
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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.
JSTOR
22573/ctv1kr6gk
Postmodern sublime.
0801430747
Mailer, Norman-- Critique et interprétation.
Andrae, A.
University of South Alabama
American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
Literature and technology-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Postmodernism (Literature)-- United States.
Sublime, The, in literature.
Technology in literature.
Littérature américaine-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
Littérature et technologie-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.