Mattessich / Fish / Jameson Lines of Flight

Discursive Time and Countercultural Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynchon
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8413-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 302 Seiten

Reihe: Post-Contemporary Interventions

An overview of the work of Pynchon and its relationship to the counterculture of the 60s, 70s and 80s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mattessich, Stefan

Fish, Stanley

Jameson, Fredric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

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

Über Autor(innen)

Stefan Mattessich is Professor of English at Santa Monica College.