Thomas Pynchon & the dark passages of history /

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"Thomas Pynchon helped pioneer the postmodern aesthetic. His formidable body of work challenges readers to think and perceive in ways that anticipate - with humor, insight, and cogency - much that has emerged in the field of literary theory over the past few decades. For David Cowart, Pynchon&#...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cowart, David, 1947-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : University of Georgia Press, Ã2011.
Subjects:
Pynchon, Thomas > Criticism and interpretation.
Pynchon, Thomas.
American / General.
LITERARY CRITICISM.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
American Literature.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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