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Focusing on works by Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, Joseph McElroy, and Don DeLillo, Joseph Tabbi finds that a simultaneous attraction to and repulsion from technology has produced a powerful new mode of modern writing—the technological sublime.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
  2. pp. i-vi
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Preface
  2. Joseph Tabbi
  3. pp. ix-xii
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  1. Introduction: Machine as Metaphor and More Than Metaphor
  2. pp. 1-29
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  1. 1 Mailer's Psychology of Machines: Of a Fire on the Moon
  2. pp. 30-50
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  1. 2 "Alpha, Omega" and the Sublime Object of Technology
  2. pp. 51-73
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  1. 3 Meteors of Style: Gravity's Rainbow
  2. pp. 74-103
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  1. 4 Technology and Identity in the Pökier Story, or The Uses of Uncertainty
  2. pp. 104-126
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  1. 5 Literature as Technology: Joseph McElroy's Plus
  2. pp. 127-153
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  1. 6 Fiction at a Distance: The Compositional Self in "Midcourse Corrections" and Women and Men
  2. pp. 154-168
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  1. 7 From the Sublime to the Beautiful to the Political: Don DeLillo at Midcareer
  2. pp. 169-207
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  1. Epilogue: Postmodern Mergers, Cyberpunk Fictions
  2. pp. 208-228
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  1. Works Cited
  2. pp. 229-238
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  1. Index
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