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BL
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881470
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Tabbi, Joseph,1960-
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Postmodern sublime : : technology and American writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk /\ Joseph Tabbi.
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| Publication Statement
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Ithaca :: Cornell University Press,, 1995.
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1 online resource (xii, 243 pages)
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1501717642
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0801430747
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0801483832
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9780801430749
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9780801483837
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: Machine as Metaphor and More Than Metaphor -- 1. Mailer's Psychology of Machines: Of a Fire on the Moon -- 2. "Alpha, Omega" and the Sublime Object of Technology -- 3. Meteors of Style: Gravity's Rainbow -- 4. Technology and Identity in the Pokler Story, or The Uses of Uncertainty -- 5. Literature as Technology: Joseph McElroy's Plus -- 6. Fiction at a Distance: The Compositional Self in "Midcourse Corrections" and Women and Men -- 7. From the Sublime to the Beautiful to the Political: Don DeLillo at Midcareer -- Epilogue: Postmodern Mergers, Cyberpunk Fictions.
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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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Mailer, Norman-- Critique et interprétation.
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Andrae, A.
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University of South Alabama
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American literature-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Literature and technology-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Postmodernism (Literature)-- United States.
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Sublime, The, in literature.
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Technology in literature.
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Littérature américaine-- 20e siècle-- Histoire et critique.
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Littérature et technologie-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 20e siècle.
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Postmodernisme (Littérature)-- États-Unis.
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Sublime dans la littérature.
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Technologie dans la littérature.
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American literature.
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Das Erhabene
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Literatur
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Literature and technology.
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Postmoderne
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Postmodernism (Literature)
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Sublime, The, in literature.
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Technik
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Technik
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TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING-- History.
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Technology in literature.
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Roman.
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Amerikaans.
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Fictie.
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Het sublieme.
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Letterkunde.
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Postmodernisme.
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Technologie.
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United States.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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810.9/384
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| LC Classification
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PS228.T42T33 1995eb
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