Postmodern sublime : technology and American writing from Mailer to cyberpunk

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Title:

Postmodern sublime : technology and American writing from Mailer to cyberpunk

Author:

Tabbi, Joseph, 1960-

ISBN:

9780801483837

9780801430749

Personal Author:

Tabbi, Joseph, 1960-

Publication Information:

Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 1996, ©1995.

Physical Description:

xii, 243 pages ; 24 cm

General Note:

Originally published 1995.

Subject Term:

American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.

Literature and technology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.

Sublime, The, in literature.

Technology in literature.

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Searching... 1:IIEMSA	1:GEN-BOOK	33168025461639	810.9384 T112P 1995	1	Searching... Unknown

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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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