New Media and the Transformation of Postmodern American Literature
From Cage to Connection
New Media and the Transformation of Postmodern American Literature
From Cage to Connection
Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
Product details
| Published | 07 Feb 2019 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 216 |
| ISBN | 9781350064973 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Series | New Horizons in Contemporary Writing |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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