Thomas Pynchons Animal Tales - Fables for Ecocriticism

Through examining case studies of animal representation in Thomas Pynchon's works, Hatooka illuminates how radically and imaginatively the legendary novelist depicts his empathy for nonhuman beings and conducts conducting a comparative study of Pynchon's narratives and his contemporary documentarians and thinkers.

List of contents

Introduction: For Whom the Fable Says: Pynchon, Lyotard, and Carson
Chapter 1. Who Caught the Blood of the Alligator? V.
Chapter 2. The Dolphin Jumped over the Moon: The Crying of Lot 49
Chapter 3. What We Talk about When We Talk about Extinction: Gravity's Rainbow
Chapter 4. Who's Afraid of the Big Badass? Vineland and Inherent Vice
Chapter 5. Sonnets for a Multispecies Cradle: Mason & Dixon and Against the Day
Chapter 6. The Lady with the Alligator Purse: Bleeding Edge and Jonathan Safran Foer
Conclusion: And Then There Were None (Except for Nature on the Screen): Documentary Guys, Grizzly Man, and Thomas Pynchon

About the author

By Keita Hatooka

Summary

Through examining case studies of animal representation in Thomas Pynchon’s works, Hatooka illuminates how radically and imaginatively the legendary novelist depicts his empathy for nonhuman beings and conducts conducting a comparative study of Pynchon’s narratives and his contemporary documentarians and thinkers.

Product details

• Authors: Keita Hatooka
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2022
• EAN: 9781793655875
• ISBN: 978-1-79365-587-5
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Ecocritical Theory and Practice
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Guides > Nature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; NATURE / Animal Rights, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, natural history, Nature & the natural world: general interest, Animals & society, Literature: history & criticism