Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to CyberpunkFocusing 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
Machine as Metaphor and More Than Metaphor | 1 |
Of a Fire on the Moon | 30 |
2 Alpha Omega and the Sublime Object of Technology | 51 |
Gravitys Rainbow | 74 |
4 Technology and Identity in the Pökier Story or The Uses of Uncertainty | 104 |
Joseph McElroys Plus | 127 |
The Compositional Self in Midcourse Corrections and Women and Men | 154 |
Don DeLillo at Midcareer | 169 |
Postmodern Mergers Cyberpunk Fictions | 208 |
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Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk Joseph Tabbi Limited preview - 1995 |
Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk Joseph Tabbi No preview available - 1995 |
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