Ideas Of Order In The Novels Of Thomas Pynchon

Author : Molly Hite
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015008981717

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Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon by Molly Hite Pdf

In confronting his characters with evidence that either a transcendent power imposes order on the world, or that, in the absence of such a power, all order is illusory, Pynchon parodies a postromantic attitude that takes these extremes as exhaustive. He invites his charactersand his readersto consider and to regard as somehow 2authorized3 such interpretations as that either some version of Providence, be it benign or malign, is directing history to its own ends, or events are perfectly discrete and human life is meaningless. And these are interpretations that Pynchon regards, not only as opposing, but as exclusive; and they exclude not only one another, but claim also to exclude that 2middle3 region of meaning and discourse that is the traditional subject matter of the novel. By manipulating these extremes, Pynchon provokes his readers to reconsider the grounds for meaning and value that characterize the secular human world the novel traditionally produces.

Author : Niran Bahjat Abbas
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838639542

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Thomas Pynchon by Niran Bahjat Abbas Pdf

This volume is a collection of essays by various academics looking at how identity is shaped, gendered, and contested throughout Pynchon's work. By exploring sociological, anthropological, literary, and political dimensions, the contributors revise important ideas in the debate over individualism using political and feminist theory and examine the different ways in which their writings embody, engage, and critique the official narratives generated by America's culture.

Author : Molly Hite
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801480175

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The Other Side of the Story by Molly Hite Pdf

Annotation A study of the radical innovations in narrative form attempted by a number of influential contemporary women fiction writers--notably Jean Rhys, Doris Lessing, Alice Walker, and Margaret Atwood. First published by Cornell U. Press in 1989. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : Keita Hatooka
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781793655882

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Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales by Keita Hatooka Pdf

Throughout his works, Thomas Pynchon uses various animal characters to narrate fables that are vital to postmodernism and ecocriticism. Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales: Fables for Ecocriticism examines case studies of animal representation in Pynchon’s texts, such as alligators in the sewer in V.; the alligator purse in Bleeding Edge; dolphins in the Miami Seaquarium in The Crying of Lot 49; dodoes, pigs, and octopuses in Gravity’s Rainbow; Bigfoot and Godzilla in Vineland and Inherent Vice; and preternatural dogs and mythical worms in Mason & Dixon and Against the Day. Through this exploration, Keita Hatooka illuminates how radically and imaginatively the legendary novelist depicts his empathy for nonhuman beings. Furthermore, by conducting a comparative study of Pynchon’s narratives and his contemporary documentarians and thinkers, Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales leads readers to draw great lessons from the fables, which stimulate our ecocritical thought for tomorrow.

Author : Erik Ketzan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350211858

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Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities by Erik Ketzan Pdf

Thomas Pynchon's style has dazzled and bewildered readers and critics since the 1960s, and this book employs computational methods from the digital humanities to reveal heretofore unknown stylistic trends over the course of Pynchon's career, as well as challenge critical assumptions regarding foregrounded and supposedly “Pynchonesque” stylistic features: ambiguity/vagueness, acronyms, ellipsis marks, profanity, and archaic stylistics in Mason & Dixon. As the first book-length stylistic or computational stylistic examination of Pynchon's oeuvre, Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities provides a groundwork of stylistic experiments and interpretations, with over 60 graphs and tables, presented in a manner in which both technical and non-technical audiences may follow.

Author : Inger H. Dalsgaard,Luc Herman,Brian McHale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521769747

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The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon by Inger H. Dalsgaard,Luc Herman,Brian McHale Pdf

This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.

Author : David Cowart
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820337098

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Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History by David Cowart Pdf

Thomas Pynchon helped pioneer the postmodern aesthetic. His formidable body of work challenges readers to think and perceive in ways that anticipate--with humor, insight, and cogency--much that has emerged in the field of literary theory over the past few decades. For David Cowart, Pynchon's most profound teachings are about history--history as myth, as rhetorical construct, as false consciousness, as prologue, as mirror, and as seedbed of national and literary identities. In one encyclopedic novel after another, Pynchon has reconceptualized historical periods that he sees as culturally definitive. Examining Pynchon's entire body of work, Cowart offers an engaging, metahistorical reading of V.; an exhaustive analysis of the influence of German culture in Pynchon's early work, with particular emphasis on Gravity's Rainbow; and a critical spectroscopy of those dark stars, Mason & Dixon and Against the Day. He defends the California fictions The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland, and Inherent Vice as roman fleuve chronicling the decade in which the American tapestry began to unravel. Cowart ends his study by considering Pynchon's place in literary history. Cowart argues that Pynchon has always understood the facticity of historical narrative and the historicity of storytelling--not to mention the relations of both story and history to myth. Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History offers a deft analysis of the problems of history as engaged by our greatest living novelist and argues for the continuity of Pynchon's historical vision.

Author : Liana Vrajitoru Andreasen
Publisher : BrownWalker Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781627346894

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The Fall of Literary Theory by Liana Vrajitoru Andreasen Pdf

The book revives literary theory, which was popular at the end of the 20th century, with the purpose of showing how useful it is in the current century in opening the minds of students to the dangers of claiming to have a fixed identity. The book shows that in Western cultures identity is a construct that always sees individuals as lacking something (being fallen) that can be retrieved or gained at the expense of an Other, an adversary seen as standing in the way of identity fulfillment. The book shows the history of "fallenness" through an analysis of Melville's Billy Budd, Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49. It also shows ways to heal identity through an analysis of Toni Morrison's Beloved and Rudolfo Anaya's Tortuga.

Author : David Robertson,Ian M Cuthbertson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1990-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349108077

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Thomas Pynchon by David Robertson,Ian M Cuthbertson Pdf

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438116112

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Thomas Pynchon by Harold Bloom Pdf

Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of Thomas Pynchon.

Author : Ian D. Copestake
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9781535850629

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Gale Researcher Guide for: Thomas Pynchon and Emerging Postmodernism by Ian D. Copestake Pdf

Gale Researcher Guide for: Thomas Pynchon and Emerging Postmodernism is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Author : Ali Chetwynd,Joanna Freer,Georgios Maragos
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Gender identity in literature
ISBN : 9780820354019

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Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender by Ali Chetwynd,Joanna Freer,Georgios Maragos Pdf

Thomas Pynchon's fiction has been considered masculinist, misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem. To the present day, deep critical divisions persist as to whether Pynchon's representations of women are sexist, feminist, or reflective of a more general misanthropy, whether his writing of sex is boorishly pornographic or effectually transgressive, whether queer identities are celebrated or mocked, and whether his departures from realist convention express masculinist elitism or critique the gendering of genre. Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender reframes these debates. As the first book-length investigation of Pynchon's writing to put the topics of sex and gender at its core, it moves beyond binary debates about whether to see Pynchon as liberatory or conservative, instead examining how his preoccupation with sex and gender conditions his fiction's whole worldview. The essays it contains, which cumulatively address all of Pynchon's novels from V. (1963) to Bleeding Edge (2013), investigate such topics as the imbrication of gender and power, sexual abuse and the writing of sex, the gendering of violence, and the shifting representation of the family. Providing a wealth of new approaches to the centrality of sex and gender in Pynchon's work, the collection opens up new avenues for Pynchon studies as a whole.

Author : David Seed
Publisher : Springer
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1988-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349087471

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The Fictional Labyrinths of Thomas Pynchon by David Seed Pdf

Author : Timo Müller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110422542

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Handbook of the American Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries by Timo Müller Pdf

Increasing specialization within the discipline of English and American Studies has shifted the focus of scholarly discussion toward theoretical reflection and cultural contexts. These developments have benefitted the discipline in more ways than one, but they have also resulted in a certain neglect of close reading. As a result, students and researchers interested in such material are forced to turn to scholarship from the 1960s and 1970s, much of which relies on dated methodological and ideological presuppositions. The handbook aims to fill this gap by providing new readings of texts that figure prominently in the literature classroom and in scholarly debate − from James’s The Ambassadors to McCarthy’s The Road. These readings do not revert naively to a time “before theory.” Instead, they distil the insights of literary and cultural theory into concise introductions to the historical background, the themes, the formal strategies, and the reception of influential literary texts, and they do so in a jargon-free language accessible to readers on all levels of qualification.

Author : Joanna Freer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781108474467

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The New Pynchon Studies by Joanna Freer Pdf

The essays in this collection are at the forefront of Pynchon studies, representing distinctively twenty-first century approaches to his work.