Thomas Pynchon and the dark passages of history [[electronic resource] /] / David Cowart
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| Autore: |
Cowart David <1947->
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| Titolo: |
Thomas Pynchon and the dark passages of history [[electronic resource] /] / David Cowart
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| Pubblicazione: | Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 813/.54 |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 Cover |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Thomas Pynchon and the dark passages of history |
| ISBN: | 1-283-43202-1 |
| 9786613432025 | |
| 0-8203-3709-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910788377603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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