Malpas / Taylor Thomas Pynchon

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78499-238-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Contemporary American and Canadian Writers

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Malpas, Simon

Taylor, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Malpas Simon:
Simon Malpas is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of EdinburghTaylor Andrew:
Andrew Taylor 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