LEADER 04335nam 2200841 450 001 9910797718103321 005 20200122164540.0 010 $a1-78499-239-9 010 $a1-78499-238-0 024 7 $a10.7765/9781784992385 035 $a(CKB)3710000000529338 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4789561 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4789561 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11332310 035 $a(OCoLC)970638801 035 $a(OCoLC)1063642526 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_78421 035 $a(UkMaJRU)992979626815701631 035 $a(DE-B1597)660667 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781784992385 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000529338 100 $a20191129h20152013 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aThomas Pynchon /$fSimon Malpas and Andrew Taylor 210 1$aManchester, UK :$cManchester University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 244 pages) $cdigital file(s) 225 1 $aContemporary American and Canadian writers 311 $a0-7190-7628-5 311 $a0-7190-9934-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references ( [228] - 238 pages) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: '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? 330 $aNow available in paperback, this is a comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature. Over a writing career spanning more than fifty years, Thomas Pynchon has been at the forefront of America's engagement with postmodern literary possibilities. In chapters that address the full range of Pynchon's career, from his earliest short stories and first novel, V., to his most recent work, this book offers highly accessible and detailed readings of a writer whose work is indispensable to understanding how the American novel has met the challenges of postmodernity. The authors discuss Pynchon's relationship to literary history, his engagement with discourses of science and utopianism, his interrogation of imperialism and his preoccupation with the paranoid sensibility. Invaluable to Pynchon scholars and to everyone working in the field of contemporary American fiction, this study explores how Pynchon's complex narratives work both as exuberant examples of formal experimentation and as serious interventions in the political health of the nation. 410 0$aContemporary American and Canadian writers. 606 $aLiterature$2mup 606 $aLiterary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers$2bicssc 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General$2bisach 606 $aLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers$2thema 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aAgainst the Day. 610 $aAmerican postmodernity. 610 $aGravity's Rainbow. 610 $aMason &Dixon. 610 $aSlow Learner. 610 $aThe Crying of Lot 49. 610 $aThe Secret Integration Entropy. 610 $aThomas Pynchon. 610 $aUnited States' political history. 610 $aVineland. 610 $aaporia. 610 $aconstraint. 610 $aeighteenth-century colonial culture. 610 $aforms of relationship. 610 $afreedom. 610 $amodernism. 610 $aparanoid sensibility. 615 7$aLiterature 615 7$aLiterary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General 615 7$aLiterary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers 676 $a813.54 700 $aMalpas$b Simon$0800720 702 $aTaylor$b Andrew$f1968- 801 2$bUkMaJRU 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797718103321 996 $aThomas Pynchon$93791170 997 $aUNINA