Thomas Pynchon - None

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

List of contents

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

About the author

Simon Malpas is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of EdinburghAndrew Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Simon Malpas, Simon Taylor Malpas, Malpas Simon, Andrew Taylor, Taylor Andrew
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2015
• EAN: 9780719099342
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-9934-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Contemporary American and Canadian Writers; Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form