New Media and the Transformation of Postmodern American Literature

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

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Inoperable Machine: A Media History of Late Postmodernism

Section One: The Tiny Box Wherein Everything is Solved: New Media Narrative, Communication Technology, and the Conversation Novels of William Gaddis
Problems in Two-Dimensions
Postmodern Issues / Good Intentions: New Media Art and Method
Even Agnostics Have Truth: The Verity of Bill Viola
Nauman, Burden, Jokes, and Cruelty
Two Sides of a Shadow: Stelarc, Chat Bots, and the Phantom Libido
Non-attribution: Corporeal Fluidity in William Gaddis's Conversation Novels

Section Two: Grooves on the Feeling Knob: Systematic Transgression in William T. Vollmann's The Rainbow Stories and Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho
Framing Excess: An Introduction to Systematic Transgression
Sensory Movements: William T. Vollmann, The Rainbow Stories, and "Emotional Calculus"
Less Sad the Second Time Around: American Psycho and the Selfhood of Repetition

Section Three: "Way Closer to the Soul than Mere Tastelessness Can Get": David Foster Wallace and Transcendent Extra-Textuality
Unforeseen Ruptures: David Foster Wallace's Big Break, or, The Legacy of Experimentalism
"Sudden Awakening to the Fact that the Mischief is Irretrievably Done": Epiphanic Structure in Infinite Jest
The Great Beyond: Textual Relationality in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Epilogue
References
Index