Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture

Informationen zum Autor Joanna Freer obtained her PhD in American literature from the University of Sussex in 2012. Freer has written for the Journal of American Studies and has published book reviews in American Studies Today and Orbit: Writing around Pynchon. Klappentext This volume explores the complex fiction of Thomas Pynchon within the context of 1960s counterculture. Zusammenfassung Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture examines Pynchon's novels in their relation to 1960s counterculture. Much has been made of Pynchon's ambiguity! but in this volume! Joanna Freer offers a concrete account of Pynchon's politics! thereby emphasising commentaries within Pynchon's fiction on the Beats! the New Left! the Black Panther Party! the psychedelic movement and the women's movement. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. On the road to anti-structure: V., The Crying Lot 49 and the Beats; 2. Love, violence and yippie subversion in Gravity's Rainbow: Pynchon and the New Left; 3. The psychedelic movement, fantasy and anarchism in The Crying Lot 49 and Against the Day; 4. The Black Panther Party, revolutionary suicide and Gravity's Rainbow; 5. Feminism moderate and radical in The Crying Lot 49 and Vineland: Pynchon and the women's movement.

Product details

• Authors: Joanna Freer, Joanna (University of Sussex) Freer
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.09.2014
• EAN: 9781107076051
• ISBN: 978-1-107-07605-1
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies