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Thomas Pynchon & the dark passages of history /

"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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Cowart, David, 1947-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Athens : University of Georgia Press, Ã2011.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.