New media and the transformation of postmodern American literature from cage to connection / Casey Michael Henry.

Author/creator Henry, Casey
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Descriptionvi, 208 pages ; 24 cm.
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Uniform titleBoth into and out of the cage
SeriesNew horizons in contemporary writing
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 -- 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.
Abstract "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"-- Provided by publisher.
General noteRevision 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages [164]-199) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018040515
ISBN9781350064966 (HB)
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