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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464136603321

Autore

Cowart David <1947->

Titolo

Thomas Pynchon and the dark passages of history [[electronic resource] /] / David Cowart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-43202-1

9786613432025

0-8203-3709-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Calibrating Clio -- Prospero's apprenticeship: slow learner -- History and myth: Pynchon's V -- Streben nach dem unendlichen: Germany and German culture in Pynchon's early work -- Pynchon and the sixties: the California novels -- The luddite vision: Mason & Dixon -- Pynchon, genealogy, history: Against the day -- The historiographer historicized: Pynchon and literary history.