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Postmodern sublime

Joseph Tabbi

1995243 pagesabout 4–6 hours
1995
first published
  • 1995Cornell University Press · 243 pages · ENGISBN 9780801430749
  • 1996Cornell University Press · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780801483837

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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