Title Postmodern sublime : technology and American writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk / Joseph Tabbi

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) Contents 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238) and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Andrae, A. gnd 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. American literature -- 20th century. Literature and technology. Postmodernism (Literature) LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- History. American literature Literature and technology Postmodernism (Literature) Sublime, The, in literature Technology in literature Das Erhabene Literatur Postmoderne Technik Motiv Technik Roman Technologie. Fictie. Postmodernisme. Het sublieme. Amerikaans. Letterkunde. United States USA Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501717642 1501717642

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