Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk
Critical Writing
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1996
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0801430747
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xii, 243
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Abstract (in English):
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.
