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1 online resource (xii, 243 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Literature and technology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Literature and technology. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
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Postmodernism (Literature) |
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Sublime, The, in literature.
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Sublime, The, in literature. |
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Technology in literature.
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Technology in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tabbi, Joseph, 1960- Postmodern sublime. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1995 0801430747 (DLC) 94045473 (OCoLC)31661618 |
| ISBN |
9781501717642 (electronic book) |
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1501717642 (electronic book) |
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0801430747 |
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9780801430749 |
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0801483832 |
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9780801483837 |
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