Author : Inger H. Dalsgaard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521769744
This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.
Author : Inger H. Dalsgaard
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN :
Comprehensive, accessible and up-to-date, this book approaches the challenging fiction of the American postmodern master Thomas Pynchon from many different angles. Designed for students, scholars and fans alike, it covers the elusive author's biography and all seven of his novels, surveying topics such as history, politics and science and technology.
Author : Steven C. Weisenburger
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 30,83 MB
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820337641
Adding some 20 percent to the original content, this is a completely updated edition of Steven Weisenburger's indispensable guide to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Weisenburger takes the reader page by page, often line by line, through the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes, and puns around which Pynchon wove his story. Weisenburger fully annotates Pynchon's use of languages ranging from Russian and Hebrew to such subdialects of English as 1940s street talk, drug lingo, and military slang as well as the more obscure terminology of black magic, Rosicrucianism, and Pavlovian psychology. The Companion also reveals the underlying organization of Gravity's Rainbow--how the book's myriad references form patterns of meaning and structure that have eluded both admirers and critics of the novel. The Companion is keyed to the pages of the principal American editions of Gravity's Rainbow: Viking/Penguin (1973), Bantam (1974), and the special, repaginated Penguin paperback (2000) honoring the novel as one of twenty "Great Books of the Twentieth Century."
Author : Timothy Parrish
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107013135
This volume provides newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics on the social and cultural history of the novel in America. It explores the work of the most influential American novelists of the past 200 years, including Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon, and Morrison.
Author : David Cowart
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 32,57 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820340634
For David Cowart, Thomas Pynchon's most profound teachings are about history- history as myth, as rhetorical construct, as false consciousness, as prologue, as mirror, and as seedbed of national and literary identities. In one encyclopedic novel after another, Pynchon has reconceptualized historical periods that he sees as culturally definitive. This book offers a deft analysis of the problems of history as engaged by our greatest living novelist and argues for the continuity of Pynchon's historical vision. -- from Back Cover
Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 17,83 MB
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101594616
"An exhilarating spectacle of greatness discovering its powers." - New Republic "Funny and wise enough to charm the gravity from a rainbow...All five of the pieces have unusual narrative vigor and inventiveness." - New York Times Compiling five short stories originally written between 1959 and 1964, Slow Learner showcases Thomas Pynchon’s writing before the publication of his first novel V. The stories compiled here are “The Small Rain,” “Low-lands,” “Entropy,” “Under the Rose,” and “The Secret Integration,” along with an introduction by Pynchon himself that Time magazine calls his "first public gesture toward autobiography."
Author : Inger H. Dalsgaard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108752705
Thomas Pynchon in Context guides students, scholars and other readers through the global scope and prolific imagination of Pynchon's challenging, canonical work, providing the most up-to-date and authoritative scholarly analyses of his writing. This book is divided into three parts. The first, 'Times and Places', sets out the history and geographical contexts both for the setting of Pynchon's novels and his own life. The second, 'Culture, Politics and Society', examines twenty important and recurring themes which most clearly define Pynchon's writing - ranging from ideas in philosophy and the sciences to humor and pop culture. The final part, 'Approaches and Readings', outlines and assesses ways to read and understand Pynchon. Consisting of Forty-four essays written by some of the world's leading scholars, this volume outlines the most important contexts for understanding Pynchon's writing and helps readers interpret and reference his literary work.
Author : John N. Duvall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 25,85 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521196310
A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.
Author : Luc Herman
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 17,26 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820345954
Herman and Weisenburger put the novel's abiding questions about freedom in context with sixties struggles against war, restricted speech rights, ethno-racial oppression, environmental degradation, and subtle new means of social and psychological control.
Author : Edward Mendelson
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
