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100 1 $aAtwill, William D.
245 10 $aFire and power :$bthe American space program as postmodern narrative /$cby William D. Atwill.
260 $aAthens :$bUniversity of Georgia Press,$c©1994.
300 $a172 pages ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 157-168) and index.
505 0 $a1. Fire and Power: A Narrative of the Space Age -- 2. Machines for Going Away: Mr. Sammler and the Labor of Puritanism -- 3. Docile Bodies at Verity Press: Disciplinary Space in Rabbit Redux -- 4. Between a Rock and a Hard Face: Norman Mailer's Of a Fire on the Moon -- 5. Desert Space and the High Frontier: Tom Wolfe as Text Pilot -- 6. Chemistry and Colonialism Gone Ballistic: Apprehending the Mass of Gravity's Rainbow -- 7. Terror in a Lonely Place: Anomie and Anomaly in Ratner's Star.
520 1 $a"In Fire and Power William D. Atwill maps the cultural contours of space-age America through readings of some of the era's most popular and influential narratives: Saul Bellow's Mr. Sammler's Planet, John Updike's Rabbit Redux, Norman Mailer's Of a Fire on the Moon, Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff, Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, and Don DeLillo's Ratner's Star. Together, Atwill demonstrates, these key texts comprise a literary history of the space age, an exploration of the novel's possibilities in uncertain times, and a disturbing critique of postwar society." "The massive technological enterprise known as the Manned Space Program was, in Atwill's words, "the historical marker of our age," and in our race to the moon, he says, Bellow, Updike, Mailer, Wolfe, Pynchon, and DeLillo found a trope for the postmodern condition. To these writers, the space program was the most visible and outward sign of a radical shift in the culture that fostered it. This shift was from modernism's search for interior, individual unity amidst chaos to the post-modern perception of the individual's fragmentation and uncertain standing in the world."--BOOK JACKET.
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