Postmodern sublime
by Joseph Tabbi
Sublime, The, in literaturePostmodernism (Literature)History and criticismTechnology in literatureLiterature and technologyHistoryAmerican literatureAmericanliterature
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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