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Fire and Power

Name: Fire and Power
Brand: University of Georgia Press
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FIRE & POWER

Contributor(s): Atwill, William D. Author Format: Paperback

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ISBN	9780820337739
Subtitle	FIRE & POWER
Publisher	University of Georgia Press
Publication date	October 2010
Language	English
MRP	£24.50 GBP
Page count	184
Item weight	53 g

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--a shift from modernism's search for interior, individual unity amidst chaos to the postmodern perception of the individual's fragmentation and uncertain standing in the world.

Fire and Power

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Atwill, William D. Author

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