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

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title New Media and the Transformation of Postmodern American Literature: From Cage to Connection
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Dr Casey Michael Henry
SeriesNew Horizons in Contemporary Writing
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:216
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreLiterary studies - from c 1900 -
Literary studies - fiction, novelists and prose writers
ISBN/Barcode 9781350178694
ClassificationsDewey:810.9113
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date 20 August 2020
Publication Country United Kingdom

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.

Author Biography

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

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. Henry's eagerness to make these connections speaks to the intellectual daring on display in this book. * Orbit *