02500nam 2200553 a 450 991080850740332120240515220237.01-283-43202-197866134320250-8203-3709-9(CKB)3170000000046507(OCoLC)775075464(CaPaEBR)ebrary10527278(SSID)ssj0000600099(PQKBManifestationID)11385008(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000600099(PQKBWorkID)10600074(PQKB)11479934(OCoLC)778314387(MdBmJHUP)muse15825(Au-PeEL)EBL3039079(CaPaEBR)ebr10527278(CaONFJC)MIL343202(MiAaPQ)EBC3039079(EXLCZ)99317000000004650720110607d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThomas Pynchon and the dark passages of history /David Cowart1st ed.Athens University of Georgia Pressc20111 online resource (273 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8203-4062-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.For David Cowart, Thomas Pynchon's most profound teachings are about history- history as myth, as rhetorical construct, as false consciousness, as prologue, as mirror, and as seedbed of national and literary identities. In one encyclopedic novel after another, Pynchon has reconceptualized historical periods that he sees as culturally definitive. This book offers a deft analysis of the problems of history as engaged by our greatest living novelist and argues for the continuity of Pynchon's historical vision. -- from Back Cover813/.54Cowart David1947-1635130MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910808507403321Thomas Pynchon and the dark passages of history3975743UNINA