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Pynchon's Against the day : a corrupted pilgrim's guide /
Thomas Pynchon's longest novel to date, Against the Day (2006), excited diverse but energetic opinions when it appeared on bookstore shelves nine years after the critically acclaimed Mason & Dixon. Its wide-ranging plot covers more than a decade -- from the 1893 World's Fair to the yea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark [Del.] : Lanham, Md. :
University of Delaware Press ; Co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
c2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: Narrative Strategies
- 1. Genre as History: Pynchon's Genre-Poaching / Brian McHale
- 2. Plots, Pilgrimage, and the Politics of Genre in Against the Day / Amy J. Elias
- 3. Mapping, the Unmappable, and Pynchon's Antitragic Vision / Krysztof Piekarski, Martin Kevorkian, and Elisabeth McKetta
- 4. Binocular Disparity and Pynchon's Panoramic Paradigm / Justin St. Clair
- Part II: Science, Belief, and Faith
- 5. Bogomilism, Orphism, Shamanism: The Spiritual and Spatial Grounds of Pynchon's Ecological Ethic / Christopher K. Coffman
- 6. Readers and Trespassers: Time Travel, Orthogonal Time, and Alternative Figurations of Time in Against the Day / Inger H. Dalsgaard
- 7. Narrating Tesla in Against the Day / Terry Reilly
- Part III: Politics and Economics
- 8. The Religious and Political Vision of Against the Day / Kathryn Hume
- 8. Daydreams and Dynamite: Anarchist Strategies of Resistance and Paths for Transformation in Against the Day / Graham Benton
- 10. "The abstractions she was instructed to embody": Women, Capitalism, and Artisitic Representation in Against the Day / Jeffrey Severs
- 11. Europe's "Easterm Question" and the United States' "Western Question": Representing Ethnic Wars in Against the Day / J. Paul Narkunas.