Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk - Softcover

Tabbi, Joseph

 
9780801483837: Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Joseph Tabbi is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is editor of the Electronic Book Review.

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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.

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ISBN 10:  0801430747 ISBN 13:  9780801430749
Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1995
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