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<p>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.</p><h3>Booknews</h3><p>Working from literary treatments of the machine back through manuscripts, journalistic accounts, and interviews to the theoretical ideas behind them, Tabbi (English, Kansas State U.) finds a simultaneous attraction to and repulsion from technology that has produced Technological Sublime as a new mode of modern writing. He focuses on concepts of language, reality, and identity in the work of Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, Joseph McElfoy, and Don DeLillo. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)</p>

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Author

Joseph Tabbi

Publisher

Ithaca: Cornell University Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501717642

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism