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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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2019]
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| Series: | New horizons in contemporary writing.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. The inoperable machine : a media history of late postmodernism
- The tiny box wherein everything is solved : new-media narrative, communication technology, and the conversation novels of William Gaddis
- Grooves on the feeling knob : systematic transgression in William T. Vollmann's The rainbow stories and Bret Easton Ellis's American psycho
- "Way closer to the soul than mere tastelessness can get" : David Foster Wallace and transcendent extra-textuality.