Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk

Tabbi, Joseph

ISBN 10: 0801483832 / ISBN 13: 9780801483837

Published by Cornell University Press, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801483832
• ISBN 13: 9780801483837
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Fair
• Weight: 14 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Education & Teaching

About this title

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.

About the Author

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