Thomas Pynchon

AvSimon Malpas,Andrew Taylor

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Now available in paperback, this is a comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature. Over a writing career spanning more than fifty years, Thomas Pynchon has been at the forefront of America’s engagement with postmodern literary possibilities. In chapters that address the full range of Pynchon’s career, from his earliest short stories and first novel, V., to his most recent work, this book offers highly accessible and detailed readings of a writer whose work is indispensable to understanding how the American novel has met the challenges of postmodernity. The authors discuss Pynchon’s relationship to literary history, his engagement with discourses of science and utopianism, his interrogation of imperialism and his preoccupation with the paranoid sensibility. Invaluable to Pynchon scholars and to everyone working in the field of contemporary American fiction, this study explores how Pynchon’s complex narratives work both as exuberant examples of formal experimentation and as serious interventions in the political health of the nation.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-08-01
Mått:138 x 216 x 14 mm
Vikt:299 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9780719099342

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Andrew Taylor and Simon Malpas are Senior Lecturers in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh

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Malpas and Taylor are indeed stimulating. Their study provides a clear, lucid discussion of several key themes in Pynchon’s novels, chief amongst which are paranoia, the emancipatory power of fantasy and alternative modes of perception, and the ‘subjunctive potentiality’ of spaces of resistance. Malpas and Taylor’s analysis is always illuminating, and their analysis of space in particular ensures that their book is a significant contribution to the diffuse field of Pynchon scholarship., George Twigg, Orbit, 2 March 2015

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Introduction: ‘the fork in the road’1. Refuge and refuse in Slow Learner2. Convoluted reading: identity, interpretation and reference in The Crying of Lot 493. Disappearing points: V.4. ‘A progressive knotting into’: power, presentation and history in Gravity’s Rainbow5. Cultural nostalgia and political possibility in Vineland6. Mason & Dixon and the transnational vortices of historical fiction7. ‘I believe in incursion from elsewhere’: political and aesthetic disruption in Against the DayConclusion: Inherent Vice as Pynchon Lite?Works CitedIndex