Simon Malpas, Andrew Taylor

Thomas Pynchon

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 325g
• ISBN-13: 9780719099342
• ISBN-10: 071909934X
• Artikelnr.: 42470746

Autorenporträt

Andrew Taylor and Simon Malpas are Senior Lecturers in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: 'the fork in the road' 1. Refuge and refuse in Slow Learner
2. Convoluted reading: identity, interpretation and reference in The Crying
of Lot 49 3. Disappearing points: V. 4. 'A progressive knotting into':
power, presentation and history in Gravity's Rainbow 5. Cultural nostalgia
and political possibility in Vineland 6. Mason & Dixon and the
transnational vortices of historical fiction 7. 'I believe in incursion
from elsewhere': political and aesthetic disruption in Against the Day
Conclusion: Inherent Vice as Pynchon Lite? Works Cited Index