9781517909789, 1517909783, 9781517909772, and 1517909775
Description:
296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Introduction: The Death of Things -- Yesterday's Tomorrowland : E. L. Doctorow, Michael Chabon, and the 1939 World's Fair -- Counterhistory, Counterfact, Counterobject : Philip K. Dick, Philip Roth, and the Second World War -- Zoned Out : Chester Himes, Ralph Ellison, and Urban Infrastructure -- Timed, Stamped : Thomas Pynchon's Media Systems -- The Disorder of Things : Marilynne Robinson's Transient Women -- Ephemeral gods, Billboard Saints : Don DeLillo's Apparitions -- Coda: The Afterlife of Things: Ephemera in the Digital Age
Summary:
"Sarah Wasserman delivers the first comprehensive study addressing the role ephemera played in twentieth-century fiction and its relevance to contemporary digital culture. Creating an alternate literary history of the twentieth century, The Death of Things delivers an insightful and idiosyncratic journey through objects that were once vital but are now forgotten"-- Provided by publisher