Lines of Flight - Discursive Time Countercultural Desire in Work of Thomas Pynchon

Informationen zum Autor Stefan Mattessich is Professor of English at Santa Monica College. Klappentext ""Lines of Flight" is an impressive achievement, reminiscent of the work of Fredric Jameson in its engagement with social and political issues, its sensitivity to questions of the ideology of form, and the authority with which it parses complex problems of textuality and discourse and identifies their cultural significance. Pynchon has not had so sympathetic a reader."--Hayden White, Stanford University Zusammenfassung For Thomas Pynchon! the characteristic features of capitalism point to a transformation in the way human beings experience time and duration. Focusing on Pynchon's novels as representative artifacts of the postwar period! this book analyzes this transformation in relation not only to Pynchon's work but also to its literary! and cultural context. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction>1. Imperium, Misogyny, and Postmodern Parody in V. 2. Ekphrasis, Escape, and Countercultural Desire in The Crying of Lot 49 3. Turning Around the Origin in Gravity’s Rainbow: Parody, Preterition, Paranoia, and Other Polymera 4. A Close Reading of Part I, Episode 19, of Gravity’s Rainbow 5. Docile Bodies and the Body without Organs: Gravity’s Gravity’s Rainbow 6. Totality and the Repetition of Difference: Rereading the 1960s in Vineland 7. A Vigilant Folly: Lines of Flight in Mason & Dixon Conclusion: Toward a Theory of Counterculture Notes Works Cited Index

Product details

• Authors: Mattessich, Stefan Mattessich, Stefan Mattessich
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.11.2002
• EAN: 9780822329947
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2994-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Sozialtheorie, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren, Amerikanisches Englisch