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

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.>

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• Authors: Martin Paul (Birkbeck College University of L Eve, Casey Michael Henry, Casey Michael (City College of New York Henry, Dr Casey Michael Henry, HENRY CASEY MICHAEL
• Assisted by: Bryan Cheyette (Editor), Martin Paul Eve (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781350064966
• ISBN: 978-1-350-06496-6
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: New Horizons in Contemporary W; New Horizons in Contemporary Writing; New Horizons in Contemporary W; New Horizons in Contemporary Writing
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form