Thomas Pynchon /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Manchester ; New York :
Manchester University Press :
2013.
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| Series: | Contemporary American and Canadian writers.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : 'The fork in the road'
- Refuge and refuse in Slow learner
- Convoluted reading : identity, interpretation and reference in The crying of lot 49
- Disappearing points : V.
- 'A progressive knotting into' : power, presentation and history in Gravity's Rainbow
- Cultural nostalgia and political possibility in Vineland
- Mason & Dixon and the transnational vortices of historical fiction
- 'I believe in incursion from elsewhere' : political and aesthetic disruption in Against the day
- Conclusion : Inherent vice as Pynchon lite?
- Works cited
- Index.