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New Media and the Transformation of Postmodern American Literature: From Cage to Connection

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Full Title:

New Media and the Transformation of Postmodern American Literature: From Cage to Connection

Contributors:
ISBN:

9781350064966

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Imprint:

Bloomsbury Academic

Publication Date:

7th February 2019

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

Professional and Scholarly

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Media studies

Dewey:

810.9113

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Hardback

Number of Pages:

216

Dimensions:

Width 156mm, Height 234mm

Weight:

485g

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 Gaddiss J R and Bret Easton Elliss American Psycho through to David Foster Wallaces 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.

Reviews

The question of a possible lineage between the work of Burden, Wallace, and Candy Crush is an intriguing and perhaps subversive one to ask. Henrys eagerness to make these connections speaks to the intellectual daring on display in this book. * Orbit *

Author Bio

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

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