{"product_id":"fire-and-power-the-american-space-program-as-postmodern-narrative-paperback","title":"Fire and Power: The American Space Program as Postmodern Narrative - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam D. Atwill\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFire and Power \u003c\/i\u003eWilliam 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 \u003ci\u003eMr. Sammler's Planet\u003c\/i\u003e, John Updike's \u003ci\u003eRabbit Redux, \u003c\/i\u003e Norman Mailer's \u003ci\u003eOf a Fire\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eon the Moon, \u003c\/i\u003e Tom Wolfe's \u003ci\u003eThe Right Stuff, \u003c\/i\u003e Thomas Pynchon's \u003ci\u003eGravity's Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e, and Don DeLillo's \u003ci\u003eRatner's Star.\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWILLIAM D. ATWILL is an associate professor of English and associate director of the honors program at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53344525091123,"sku":"9780820337739","price":53.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/xj_lcje8wi9780820337739.webp?v=1778725865","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/fire-and-power-the-american-space-program-as-postmodern-narrative-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}