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Now available in paperback, this is a comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature. Over a writing career spanning more than fifty years, Thomas Pynchon has been at the forefront of America's engagement with postmodern literary possibilities. In chapters tha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Malpas, Simon (Author), Taylor, Andrew, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Pynchon, Thomas.
Pynchon, Thomas > Criticism and interpretation.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: 'the fork in the road'
  • Refuge and refuse in Slow Learner
  • Convoluted reading: identity, interpretation and reference in The Crying of Lot 49
  • Disappearing points: V.
  • 'A progressive knotting into': power, presentation and history in Gravity's Rainbow
  • Cultural nostalgia and political possibility in Vineland
  • Mason & Dixon and the transnational vortices of historical fiction
  • 'I believe in incursion from elsewhere': political and aesthetic disruption in Against the Day
  • Conclusion: Inherent Vice as Pynchon Lite?

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