Pynchon and the Political

Informationen zum Autor Samuel Thomas is Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Durham University! UK. Klappentext Thomas Pynchon's writing of postmodern fiction has been characterized as genre-defying and enigmatic! and as a series of complex and esoteric language games. This study attempts to demonstrate! however! that an oblique yet compelling sense of the "political" Pynchon disappears all too easily under the mantle of post modernity. Zusammenfassung Thomas Pynchon's writing of postmodern fiction has been characterized as genre-defying and enigmatic, and as a series of complex and esoteric language games. This study attempts to demonstrate, however, that an oblique yet compelling sense of the "political" Pynchon disappears all too easily under the mantle of post modernity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Text-Politics-Criticism-Methodology 1. Retro-Vertigo: Escaping the Enlightenment in Mason & Dixon 2. Blank Checks: Invisibility and Economy in Mason & Dixon 3. Theatre of Operations: Surgery, War and Questing in V. and Gravity’s Rainbow 4. Memento-Mori: War-Life and War-Experience in Gravity’s Rainbow and V 5. (What’s so Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding? Resistance vs. Withdrawal in The Crying of Lot 49 6. Sir Yes Sir!: Doing It To Yourself and Doing It For Yourself in Vineland. Conclusion: Pynchon-Politics-Everybody

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Thomas, Samuel (Durham University) Thomas, Thomas Samuel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.09.2007
• EAN: 9780415956468
• ISBN: 978-0-415-95646-8
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors; Studies in Major Literary Authors
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism