04335nam 2200841 450 991079771810332120200122164540.01-78499-239-91-78499-238-010.7765/9781784992385(CKB)3710000000529338(MiAaPQ)EBC4789561(Au-PeEL)EBL4789561(CaPaEBR)ebr11332310(OCoLC)970638801(OCoLC)1063642526(MdBmJHUP)musev2_78421(UkMaJRU)992979626815701631(DE-B1597)660667(DE-B1597)9781784992385(EXLCZ)99371000000052933820191129h20152013 fy| 0engur||#---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThomas Pynchon /Simon Malpas and Andrew TaylorManchester, UK :Manchester University Press,2015.©20131 online resource (vii, 244 pages) digital file(s)Contemporary American and Canadian writers0-7190-7628-5 0-7190-9934-X Includes bibliographical references ( [228] - 238 pages) and index.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?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.Contemporary American and Canadian writers.LiteraturemupLiterary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose WritersbicsscLITERARY CRITICISM / American / GeneralbisachLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersthemaCriticism, interpretation, etc.Electronic books. Against the Day.American postmodernity.Gravity's Rainbow.Mason &Dixon.Slow Learner.The Crying of Lot 49.The Secret Integration Entropy.Thomas Pynchon.United States' political history.Vineland.aporia.constraint.eighteenth-century colonial culture.forms of relationship.freedom.modernism.paranoid sensibility.LiteratureLiterary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose WritersLITERARY CRITICISM / American / GeneralLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers813.54Malpas Simon800720Taylor Andrew1968-UkMaJRUBOOK9910797718103321Thomas Pynchon3791170UNINA