Information multiplicity
Subtitle: American fiction in the age of media saturation
By: John Johnston.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Mass media and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Literature and technology -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Technology and civilization in literature; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States; Information technology -- United States; Information science in literature; Mass media -- United States
Description: In Information Multiplicity, Johnston describes how fractalized realism has redefined thought itself - from the High Modernist "stream of consciousness" into what the machine philosopher Daniel Dennett refers to as "multiple drafts" or "circuits" operating concurrently in the human brain.

In a series of close readings, Johnston traces how such a viral influx of information into human consciousness has been replicated in works by Thomas Pynchon (Gravity's Rainbow and Vineland), Joseph McElroy (Lookout Cartridge), William Gaddis (JR), Don DeLillo (Libra), and William Gibson (Neuromancer).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-296) and index.