The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

Herausgeber: Dalsgaard, Inger H.; Mchale, Brian; Herman, Luc

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Produktbeschreibung

This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9780521769747
• ISBN-10: 0521769744
• Artikelnr.: 34438576

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman and Brian McHale
Biographical note John M. Krafft
Part I. Canon: 1. Early Pynchon Luc Herman
2. The Crying of Lot 49 and other California novels Thomas Hill Schaub
3. Gravity's Rainbow Steven Weisenburger
4. Mason and Dixon Kathryn Hume
5. Against the Day Bernard Duyfhuizen
Part II. Poetics: 6. Pynchon in literary history David Cowart
7. Pynchon's postmodernism Brian McHale
8. Pynchon's intertexts David Seed
Part III. Issues: 9. History Amy J. Elias
10. Politics Jeff Baker
11. Alterity Deborah Madsen
12. Science and technology Inger H. Dalsgaard
Coda: how to read Pynchon Hanjo Berressem.