Casey Michael Henry

New Media and the Transformation of Postmodern American Literature

From Cage to Connection

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Continnuum-3PL
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9781350064966
• ISBN-10: 1350064963
• Artikelnr.: 52823063

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Inoperable Machine: A Media History of Late Postmodernism
Section One: The Tiny Box Wherein Everything is Solved: New Media
Narrative, Communication Technology, and the Conversation Novels of William
Gaddis
Problems in Two-Dimensions
Postmodern Issues / Good Intentions: New Media Art and Method
Even Agnostics Have Truth: The Verity of Bill Viola
Nauman, Burden, Jokes, and Cruelty
Two Sides of a Shadow: Stelarc, Chat Bots, and the Phantom Libido
Non-attribution: Corporeal Fluidity in William Gaddis's Conversation Novels
Section Two: Grooves on the Feeling Knob: Systematic Transgression in
William T. Vollmann's The Rainbow Stories and Bret Easton Ellis's American
Psycho
Framing Excess: An Introduction to Systematic Transgression
Sensory Movements: William T. Vollmann, The Rainbow Stories, and "Emotional
Calculus"
Less Sad the Second Time Around: American Psycho and the Selfhood of
Repetition
Section Three: "Way Closer to the Soul than Mere Tastelessness Can Get":
David Foster Wallace and Transcendent Extra-Textuality
Unforeseen 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 Jest
The Great Beyond: Textual Relationality in Brief Interviews with Hideous
Men
Epilogue
References
Index