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Record Nr.

UNINA9911046673103321

Titolo

Pynchon's California / / edited by Scott McClintock and John Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, Iowa : , : University Of Iowa Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

9781609382940

1609382943

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Collana

The New American Canon: The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture

Altri autori (Persone)

MillerJohn <1959 July 2->

McClintockScott

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

Electronic books.

California In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Pynchon's California is the first book to examine Thomas Pynchon's use of California as a setting in his novels. Throughout his 50-year career, Pynchon has regularly returned to the Golden State in his fiction. With the publication in 2009 of his third novel set there, the significance of California in Pynchon's evolving fictional project becomes increasingly worthy of study. Scott McClintock and John Miller have gathered essays from leading and up-and-coming Pynchon scholars who explore this topic from a variety of critical perspectives, reflecting the diversity and eclecticism of Pynchon's f