Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk
by Joseph Tabbi
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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.Tags
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Joseph Tabbi is Professor of American Literature at the University of Bergen, Norway. His published works include Postmodern Sublime (1995), Cognitive Fictions (2002), and Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis (2015). He edits electronic book review and founded the Consortium on Electronic Literature show more (www.cellproject.net). show less
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- 810.9 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American literature in English History and criticism of American literature
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- PS228 .T42 .T33 — Language and Literature American literature American literature By period 20th century
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