Postmodern sublime : technology and American writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk

Author(s)

• Tabbi, Joseph

Bibliographic Information

Postmodern sublime : technology and American writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk

Joseph Tabbi

Cornell University Press, 1995

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-238) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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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Details

• NCID: BA25528378
• ISBN:
  • 0801430747
• LCCN: 94045473
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Ithaca
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 243 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS228.T42
  • DC20 : 810.9/384
  • NDC8 : 930.29
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  • LCSH : Literature and technology -- United States -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States
  • LCSH : Sublime, The, in literature
  • LCSH : Technology in literature