New Media and the Transformation of Postmodern American Literature

From Cage to Connection

AvCasey Michael Henry,Bryan Cheyette

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-02-07
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:485 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Horizons in Contemporary Writing
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350064966

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Casey Michael Henry is Carl H. Pforzheimer Postdoctoral Fellow in English at The City College of New York, USA.

Recensioner i media

The question of a possible lineage between the work of Burden, Wallace, and Candy Crush is an intriguing and perhaps subver¬sive one to ask. Henry’s eagerness to make these connections speaks to the intellectual daring on display in this book.

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Inoperable Machine: A Media History of Late PostmodernismSection One: The Tiny Box Wherein Everything is Solved: New Media Narrative, Communication Technology, and the Conversation Novels of William GaddisProblems in Two-DimensionsPostmodern Issues / Good Intentions: New Media Art and MethodEven Agnostics Have Truth: The Verity of Bill ViolaNauman, Burden, Jokes, and CrueltyTwo Sides of a Shadow: Stelarc, Chat Bots, and the Phantom LibidoNon-attribution: Corporeal Fluidity in William Gaddis's Conversation NovelsSection Two: Grooves on the Feeling Knob: Systematic Transgression in William T. Vollmann's The Rainbow Stories and Bret Easton Ellis's American PsychoFraming Excess: An Introduction to Systematic TransgressionSensory Movements: William T. Vollmann, The Rainbow Stories, and "Emotional Calculus"Less Sad the Second Time Around: American Psycho and the Selfhood of RepetitionSection Three: "Way Closer to the Soul than Mere Tastelessness Can Get": David Foster Wallace and Transcendent Extra-TextualityUnforeseen Ruptures: David Foster Wallace's Big Break, or, The Legacy of Experimentalism"Sudden Awakening to the Fact that the Mischief is Irretrievably Done": Epiphanic Structure in Infinite JestThe Great Beyond: Textual Relationality in Brief Interviews with Hideous MenEpilogueReferencesIndex