technology and American writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk /
First Statement of Responsibility
Joseph Tabbi.
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Ithaca :
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Cornell University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1995.
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1 online resource (xii, 243 pages)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
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JSTOR
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22573/ctv1kr6gk
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Title
Postmodern sublime.
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0801430747
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Mailer, Norman-- Critique et interprétation.
Andrae, A.
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University of South Alabama
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
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.