Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk
- ISBN-10
- 1501717642
- ISBN-13
- 9781501717642
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-05-31
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Author
- Joseph Tabbi
Description
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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