Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Modernist Narrating Machines
7. 1. Magic Media Mountain: Technology And The Umbildungsroman 29
8. 2. Archaic Mechanics, Anarchic Meaning: Malcolm Lowry And The Technology Of Narrative 53
9. 3. Writing Machines: Technology And The Failures Of Representation In The Works Of Franz Kafka 76
10. Part II: Materialities Of Reading
11. 4. Strange Attractors In Absalom, Absalom! 99
12. 5. Cinema And The Paralysis Of Perception: Robbe-Grillet, Condillac, Virilio 119
13. 6. Exploring Technographies: Chaos Diagrams And Oulipian Writing As Virtual Signs 136
14. Part III: Postmodernisms: The Novel In The Era Of Media Multiplicity
15. 7. Media And Drugs In Pynchon's Second World War: Translated From The German By Michael Wutz And Geoffrey Winthrop-Young 157
16. 8. Mediality In Vineland And Neuromancer 173
17. 9. No More Heroes: The Routinization Of The Epic In Techno-Thrillers 193
18. Part IV: The Book In Bits: Hypertext And Virtual Narrative
19. 10. The Literary Canon In The Age Of Its Technological Obsolescence 227
20. 11. Virtual Textuality 250
21. 12. No War Machine 269
22. Works Cited 293
23. About The Contributors 311
24. Index 313