New media and the transformation of postmodern American literature : from cage to connection /
How has American literature after postmodernism responded to the digital age? Drawing on insights from contemporary media theory, this is the first book to explore the explosion of new media technologies as an animating context for contemporary American literature. Casey Michael Henry examines the i...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2019]
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| Series: | New horizons in contemporary writing.
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| Summary: | How has American literature after postmodernism responded to the digital age? Drawing on insights from contemporary media theory, this is the first book to explore the explosion of new media technologies as an animating context for contemporary American literature. Casey Michael Henry examines the intertwining histories of new media forms since the 1970s and literary postmodernism and its aftermath, from William Gaddis's J R and Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho through to David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. Through these histories, the book charts the ways in which print-based postmodern writing at first resisted new mass media forms and ultimately came to respond to them. |
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| Item Description: | Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--City University of New York, 2016, titled Both into and out of the cage : new media, transgression, and the remaking of American literary connection, 1975-1999. |
| Physical Description: | vi, 208 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350064966 1350064963 |