Gravity's Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom

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.

About the author

Luc Herman (Author)
LUC HERMAN is a professor of English and narrative theory at the University of Antwerp. He is the coauthor of Handbook of Narrative Analysis with Bart Vervaeck and the coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon with Inger Dalsgaard and Brian McHale.

Steven Weisenburger (Author)
STEVEN WEISENBURGER is Mossiker Chair in Humanities and chair of the English Department at Southern Methodist University. His books include Fables of Subversion (Georgia) and Modern Medea.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Luc Herman, Luc/ Weisenburger Herman, Steven Weisenburger, Steven C. Weisenburger
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2013
• EAN: 9780820345956
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4595-6
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies