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Author : Tore Rye Andersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009377577
The book reads Pynchon's major novels as a global trilogy about history, modernity and the rise of the Anthropocene.
Author : Tore Rye Andersen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009377591
While Thomas Pynchon is usually described as an American author who primarily writes about American reality, Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene argues that his major novels, Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, and Against the Day, can profitably be read as a global trilogy that presents a coherent historical account of how the emergence and spread of European modernity across the world have had devastating consequences for the planet and its inhabitants. This book sets a new agenda in Pynchon studies, charting his early anticipation of anthropocenic and planetary ideas, including globalization's demand for constant growth. It combines close textual readings with broad perspectives on large thematic arcs and stylistic developments across Pynchon's entire career as well as an extensive dialogue with the rich reception of his work.
Author : Carsten Meiner,Katrine Helene Andersen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040014134
As a geo-historical place, the beach integrates a variety of characteristics and functions so multiple that they tend to contradict each other. The beach is both a place of work and trade but also of leisure; it is both a place of therapy and health but also of migration, war, and death; it is a place of mass tourism and boredom but also the place of experiencing the Other; it is a public place but also an uncivilized and desolate place. This book studies the literary representation of the beach from ancient Greek literature up until today, drawing on English, French, Italian, American, and Spanish literatures from various periods and genres and presenting multiple ways of comparing and understanding literary beaches as a ubiquitous literary phenomenon. It demonstrates how the literary beach as a both geo-historical place and as an aesthetic literary commonplace has been a constant and privileged resource for the analysis of more general existential, sociological, and moral problems. This is the case when for instance the Tahitian beach becomes the place of the "already modern" in Stevenson's tales, or when the Italian beach becomes a question of modern feminism in Ferrante. In this sense, literature expands the local or national beach by articulating its transnational complexities.
Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594650
Winner of the 1974 National Book Award “A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implications of this discovery will launch Slothrop on an amazing journey across war-torn Europe, fleeing an international cabal of military-industrial superpowers, in search of the mysterious Rocket 00000, through a wildly comic extravaganza that has been hailed in The New Republic as “the most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II.”
Author : Ali Dehdarirad
Publisher : Sapienza Università Editrice
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788893772877
Offering a transdisciplinary journey across Thomas Pynchon’s California trilogy, “From Faraway California” addresses the representation of (city)space in the Crying of Lot 49, Vineland, and Inherent Vice through “geourban” lenses. Drawing on specific concepts in urban and regional studies, the book provides a thorough examination of Pynchon’s spatial imaginary, where the reader comes to understand how his fiction tackles the socio-political and cultural consequences of urban restructuring in the contemporary city and the lives of its citizens. Pynchon’s depiction of California is further analyzed from mythical and environmental standpoints to shed light on his planetary vision and (post)postmodernist poetics in the span of nearly half a century. More broadly, the book’s geocritical and urban analyses of Pynchon’s fiction indicate what might take place concerning the future of urbanism, toward “planetary urbanization” and the formation of the “city region.”
Author : Thomas Moore
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0826206255
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, arguably one of the greatest works of fiction in this century, has often been considered despairing, absurdist, or niilistic. Now, in a monumental effort to make Pynchon's work more accessible, Thomas Moore surveys all the major, and often confusing, backgrounds in Gravity's Rainbow--from archaic myths to quantum-physical theory; from romantic thought to rocket technology; from seventeenth-century Puritanism, through the ideas of Weber, Jung, and Marhsall McLuhan, to the worlds of Weimar and Hollywood movies--to help Pynchon's reader understand the weird, frightening, funny, lyrical, surreal, and ultimately hopeful cosmos of Pynchon's fictions. By exploring the novel's internal strategies and its brilliant integrations of background information, Moore illustrates how Gravity's Rainbow remains movingly humane, as its author, the agonized mediator of a bewildering field of cultural information, remains excruciatingly sensitive to every human image and gesture, searching for the chances for love and connection that still hide in the vast designs of things. The reader of Moore's work should emerge with a thorough appreciation of Pynchon's unique style of genius, of his optimism, of his intense moralism, and of the justness of the widespread claim that Pynchon is the most brilliant "encyclopedic" writer of fiction since Joyce.
Author : Phillip Grayson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666911695
Radical Hope in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon: The Moon and Meteor provides a careful consideration of the author's career, examining the ways in which the subversion of his early novels feeds into the radical optimism of his later works. The book's first half explores the author's use of the image of the Moon as a romanticized ideal that is irreparably corrupted by and corruptly manipulated by forces of worldly power. The second half takes up the meteor as an image of impending violence that has yet to be full realized, finding in the unlikely possibility of that violence being somehow averted, a reckless sort of hope. This foolhardy but nonetheless real hope to escape from violent, oppressive structures and forge a real ethical obligation to the other marks the development of these paired metaphors, and through them Pynchon introduces the possibility, however slight, that literature, with its powerfully intimate relationship with consciousness, may at least sustain that hope.
Author : Steven C. Weisenburger
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820337647
Adding some 20 percent to the original content, this is a completely updated edition of Steven Weisenburger's indispensable guide to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Weisenburger takes the reader page by page, often line by line, through the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes, and puns around which Pynchon wove his story. Weisenburger fully annotates Pynchon's use of languages ranging from Russian and Hebrew to such subdialects of English as 1940s street talk, drug lingo, and military slang as well as the more obscure terminology of black magic, Rosicrucianism, and Pavlovian psychology. The Companion also reveals the underlying organization of Gravity's Rainbow--how the book's myriad references form patterns of meaning and structure that have eluded both admirers and critics of the novel. The Companion is keyed to the pages of the principal American editions of Gravity's Rainbow: Viking/Penguin (1973), Bantam (1974), and the special, repaginated Penguin paperback (2000) honoring the novel as one of twenty "Great Books of the Twentieth Century."
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780791074459
A collection of critical essays on Thomas Pynchon's work.
Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1584 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594667
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year Spanning the era between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the Day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it’s their lives that pursue them.
Author : John O. Stark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015005777704
Investigates Pynchon's metaphorical use of scientific theories and information to help unify fictional worlds that seem on the edge of chaos.
Author : Sean Carswell
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820350882
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- CHAPTER 1. Pynchon in Zuccotti Park: An Introduction -- CHAPTER 2. Vineland and the Insomniac Unavenged -- CHAPTER 3. Mason & Dixon and the Ghastly Fop -- CHAPTER 4. Against the Day and a World Like Ours, with One or Two Adjustments -- CHAPTER 5. Inherent Vice and Being in Place -- CHAPTER 6. Bleeding Edge and Getting Constructively Lost -- CHAPTER 7. A Snappy 'Ukulele Accompaniment -- CHAPTER 8. Occupy the Novel: A Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Author : Peter L. Cooper
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0520045378
Author : Kathryn Hume
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015011827436
The exhausting plenitude of loosely connected detail in Gravity's Rainbow makes it a favorite of postmodern critics, who claim it describes a modern, random, unknowable universe. Hume expands the possibilities as she discloses a mythic structure that underlies Pynchon's work and provides easier access to his world. "Myth turns chaos into cosmos," Hume explains, describing how the profuse detail of Pynchon's book allows for the creation of a "world humankind shapes out of chaos by means of ritual and myth. . . a set of interlocking stories. . . [that] fit into a narrative sequence or mythology that conveys, supports, and challenges cultural values." Pynchon's "mythology is not rigidly consistent," Hume notes, but "several strands of mythological action. . . serve a stabilizing function in this chaotic book." Pynchon creates his own "unheroic" hero to show the way for making sense of the fragmented experience of life in the postmodern world.
Author : Zak Smith
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780977312795
Gravity's Rainbow Illustrated: One Picture for Every Page features the work of an Ivy League-educated, punk-rock, porn-star visual artist who has created a drawing for every page of a novel that is widely considered to be the most difficult work of literature ever produced in English.