LEADER 03673nam 22005532 450 001 996205888603316 005 20160215093047.0 010 $a1-107-48540-1 010 $a1-139-01986-4 035 $a(CKB)2560000000079995 035 $a(MH)013093685-5 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000622236 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11388572 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000622236 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10639541 035 $a(PQKB)10626936 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139019866 035 $a(UK-CbPIL)2069239 035 $a(PPN)24335052X 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000079995 100 $a20110216d2012|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Cambridge companion to Thomas Pynchon /$fedited by Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman, Brian McHale$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 193 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge companions to literature 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). 311 $a0-521-17304-3 311 $a0-521-76974-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: Introduction Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman and Brian McHale; Biographical note John M. Kraft; Part I. Canon: 1. Early Pynchon Luc Herman; 2. The Crying of Lot 49 and other California novels Thomas Hill Schaub; 3. Gravity's Rainbow Steven Weisenburger; 4. Mason and Dixon Kathryn Hume; 5. Against the Day Bernard Duyfhuizen; Part II. Poetics: 6. Pynchon in literary history David Cowart; 7. Pynchon's postmodernism Brian McHale; 8. Pynchon's intertexts David Seed; Part III. Issues: 9. History Amy J. Elias; 10. Politics Jeff Baker; 11. Alterity Deborah Madsen; 12. Science and technology Inger H. Dalsgaard; Coda: how to read Pynchon Hanjo Berressem. 330 $aThe most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches Pynchon's fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an international roster of scholars at the cutting edge of Pynchon studies. Part I covers Pynchon's fiction novel-by-novel from the 1960s to the present, including such indisputable classics as The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow. Part II zooms out to give a bird's-eye-view of Pynchon's novelistic practice across his entire career. Part III surveys major topics of Pynchon's fiction: history, politics, alterity ('otherness') and science and technology. Designed for students, scholars and fans alike, the Companion begins with a biography of the elusive author and ends with a coda on how to read Pynchon and a bibliography for further reading. 410 0$aCambridge companions to literature. 676 $a813/.54 686 $aLIT004020$2bisacsh 702 $aDalsgaard$b Inger H. 702 $aHerman$b Luc 702 $aMcHale$b Brian 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996205888603316 996 $aThe Cambridge companion to Thomas Pynchon$92493619 997 $aUNISA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress