Lookout Cartridge

Author : Joseph McElroy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015058209555

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Lookout Cartridge by Joseph McElroy Pdf

With "Lookout Cartridge," Joseph McElroy established a reputation as one of contemporary fiction's foremost innovators and deft observers into the fissures of modern society. It is a novel of dazzling intricacy, absorbing suspense, and the highest ambition: to redeem the great claim of paranoia on the American psyche. In trying to figure out just who is so threatened by an innocent piece of cinema verit? filmed in collaboration with a friend, Cartwright finds himself at the heart of a mystery stretching from New York and London to Corsica and Stonehenge. With each new fact he gathers, both the intricacy of the syndicate arrayed against him and what his search will cost him become alarmingly clear.

Author : Tony Tanner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1989-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521311551

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Scenes of Nature, Signs of Men by Tony Tanner Pdf

This book is about the relationship of the American writer to his land and language - to the 'scene' and the 'sign', to the natural landscape and the inscriptions imposed upon it by men. Among the questions considered in the first section of the book are how does American Romantic writing differ from European; what are the peculiar problems faced by the American artist, and what roles does he adopt to tackle them; what kind of writing results when authors as different as Henry Adams and Mark Twain lament the vanishing of an earlier America, or when Adams and Henry James review their complex relationship to their homeland, or when W. D. Howells and Stephen Crane seek to define their themes in a specifically American setting. The second section of the book examines similar concerns in a number of contemporary writers, notably Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, John DeLillo, and William Gass.

Author : Scott McClintock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137478917

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Topologies of Fear in Contemporary Fiction by Scott McClintock Pdf

The central concern of the book is the impact of global terror networks and state counterterrorism on twentieth-century fiction. A unique contribution of this book is the comparative approach, as opposed to the single author focus of most of the edited collections on terrorism in literature.

Author : Joseph McElroy
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1585675792

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Actress in the House by Joseph McElroy Pdf

"Engaging each other with a humor and uncanny intimacy on the night streets of Manhattan, Becca and Daley begin a precarious period of discovery, with each new disclosure opening a further dimension, slipping a boundary to both past and future. With the force of revelation, a map connecting their lives emerges in stark relief - just as the events that have brought them together threaten to tear them apart."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Tom LeClair
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252061020

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The Art of Excess by Tom LeClair Pdf

Author : Joseph McElroy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0979312396

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Women and Men by Joseph McElroy Pdf

Beginning in childbirth and entered like a multiple dwelling in motion, Women and Men embraces and anatomizes the 1970s in New York - from experiments in the chaotic relations between the sexes to the flux of the city itself. Yet through an intricate overlay of scenes, voices, fact, and myth, this expanding fiction finds its way also across continents and into earlier and future times and indeed the Earth, to reveal connections between the most disparate lives and systems of feeling and power. At its breathing heart, it plots the fuguelike and fieldlike densities of late-twentieth-century life. McElroy rests a global vision on two people, apartment-house neighbors who never quite meet. Except, that is, in the population of others whose histories cross theirs believers and skeptics; lovers, friends, and hermits; children, parents, grandparents, avatars, and, apparently, angels. For Women and Men shows how the families through which we pass let one person's experience belong to that of many, so that we throw light on each other as if these kinships were refracted lives so real as to be reincarnate. A mirror of manners, the book is also a meditation on the languages, rich, ludicrous, exact, and also American, in which we try to grasp the world we're in. Along the kindred axes of separation and intimacy Women and Men extends the great line of twentieth-century innovative fiction.

Author : Joseph McElroy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1938604210

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Cannonball by Joseph McElroy Pdf

Iraq war, two divers, a Californian family with an intimacy that opens the larger stories even more deeply.

Author : John Johnston
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998-05-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0801857058

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Information Multiplicity by John Johnston Pdf

In Information Multiplicity, Johnston describes how fractalized realism has redefined thought itself - from the High Modernist "stream of consciousness" into what the machine philosopher Daniel Dennett refers to as "multiple drafts" or "circuits" operating concurrently in the human brain. In a series of close readings, Johnston traces how such a viral influx of information into human consciousness has been replicated in works by Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow and Vineland), Joseph McElroy (Lookout Cartridge), William Gaddis (JR), Don DeLillo (Libra), and William Gibson (Neuromancer).

Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307267450

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The Road by Cormac McCarthy Pdf

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle). • From the bestselling author of The Passenger A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Author : Joseph McElroy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Pastoral fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015046834068

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Hind's Kidnap by Joseph McElroy Pdf

Author : David Porush
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351129664

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The Soft Machine by David Porush Pdf

The Soft Machine, originally published in 1985, represents a significant contribution to the study of contemporary literature in the larger cultural and scientific context. David Porush shows how the concepts of cybernetics and artificial intelligence that have sparked our present revolution in computer and information technology have also become the source for images and techniques in our most highly sophisticated literature, postmodern fiction by Barthelme, Barth, Pynchon, Beckett, Burroughs, Vonnegut and others. With considerable skill, Porush traces the growth of "the metaphor of the machine" as it evolves both technologically and in literature of the twentieth century. He describes the birth of cybernetics, gives one of the clearest accounts for a lay audience of its major concepts and shows the growth of philosophical resistance to the mechanical model for human intelligence and communication which cybernetics promotes, a model that had grown increasingly influential in the previous decade. The Soft Machine shows postmodern fiction synthesizing the inviting metaphors and concepts of cybernetics with the ideals of art, a synthesis that results in what Porush calls "cybernetic fiction" alive to the myths and images of a cybernetic age.

Author : Joseph Tabbi
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501717642

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Postmodern Sublime by Joseph Tabbi Pdf

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.

Author : Joseph McElroy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015056315321

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A Smuggler's Bible by Joseph McElroy Pdf

In its depth of vision and omnidirectional grasp of the rhythms and textures of modern life. A Smuggler's Bible marked the debut of one of contemporary fiction's most compelling and original authors. Upon its first publication in 1966, it drew a chorus of critical acclaim and comparisons to William Gaddis's The Recognitions and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano. Used once upon a time to convey contraband, the familiar hollowed-out bible reappears transformed as a metaphor for the earnest attempt, perhaps futile, by David Brooke to project his life into the lives of those who have affected him to varying degrees of residual puzzlement, fascination, profit, frustration, and damage. These people -- a reserved English bookseller in Brooklyn Heights, the bizarre tenants of a Manhattan rooming house, his mother on a day of haunting insight, a mercurial and narcissistic professor of history, and finally his own father confronting death -- are the subject of David's vaunted "projections," the eight pseudo-autobiographical manuscripts he has written, now housed safely aboard a transatlantic liner on their way to a mysterious old man in London. David is the reader of his life, and as he broods over the stories, attempting to conjure his identity from its disjointed parts, yet another voice intercedes, a cunning interlocutor who alternately guides and thwarts his attempts to find a pattern of meaning in the profuse details of life. Book jacket.

Author : Brian McHale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135083632

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Constructing Postmodernism by Brian McHale Pdf

Brian McHale provides a series of readings of a wide range of postmodernist fiction, from Eco's Foucault's Pendulum to the works of cyberpunk science-fiction, relating the works to aspects of postmodern popular culture.

Author : Marc Chenetier
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812230590

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Beyond Suspicion by Marc Chenetier Pdf

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996