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Tables of Contents for Postmodern Sublime
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
Introduction: Machine as Metaphor and More Than Metaphor
1
29
Mailer's Psychology of Machines: Of a Fire on the Moon
30
21
``Alpha, Omega'' and the Sublime Object of Technology
51
23
Meteors of Style: Gravity's Rainbow
74
30
Technology and Identity in the Pokler Story, or The Uses of Uncertainty
104
23
Literature as Technology: Joseph McElroy's Plus
127
27
Fiction at a Distance: The Compositional Self in ``Midcourse Corrections'' and Women and Men
154
15
From the Sublime to the Beautiful to the Political: Don DeLillo at Midcareer
169
39
Epilogue: Postmodern Mergers, Cyberpunk Fictions
208
21
Works Cited
229
10
Index
239