Pynchon Notes

Author : Thomas Schaub
Publisher : Modern Language Association of America
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0873528131

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Approaches to Teaching Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Other Works by Thomas Schaub Pdf

As teachers well know, the elements that make Thomas Pynchon exciting to read and study—the historical references, the multilayered prose, and the postmodern integration of high and low cultures and science and literature—often constitute hurdles to undergraduate and graduate readers alike. The essays gathered in this volume turn these classroom challenges into assets, showing instructors how to make the narratives' frustration of reader expectations not only intellectually rewarding but also part of the joy of reading The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, and other Pynchon works, short and long. Like all volumes in the Approaches to Teaching series, the collection opens with a survey of original and supplementary materials. The essays that follow offer an array of classroom techniques: among them, ways to contextualize the novels in their historical settings, from Puritan America through World War II and the volatile 1960s; to use the texts to explore racial and gender politics and legacies of colonialism; and to make Pynchon's elaborate prose style accessible to students. Teachers will also find sample syllabi for courses solely on Pynchon as well as suggestions for incorporating his work into graduate and undergraduate classrooms at a range of institutions.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015061958883

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Pynchon Notes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Inger H. Dalsgaard,Luc Herman,Brian McHale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594674

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Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Pdf

Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon—Private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there. It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex- girlfriend. Suddenly she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that "love" is another of those words going around at the moment, like "trip" or "groovy," except that this one usually leads to trouble. Undeniably one of the most influential writers at work today, Pynchon has penned another unforgettable book.

Author : Phillip Grayson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666911695

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Radical Hope in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon by Phillip Grayson Pdf

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 : Erik Ketzan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350211841

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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 : 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 : J. Kerry Grant
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820340777

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A Companion to V. by J. Kerry Grant Pdf

To the uninitiated, Thomas Pynchon’s V. seems to defy comprehension with its open-ended and fragmented narrative, huge cast of characters (some 150 of them), and wide range of often obscure references. J. Kerry Grant’s Companion to “V.” takes us through the novel chapter by chapter, breaking through its daunting surface by summarizing events and clarifying Pynchon’s many allusions. The Companion draws extensively from existing critical and explicative work on V. to suggest the range of interpretations that the novel can support. The hundreds of notes that comprise the Companion are keyed to the three most widely cited editions of V. Most notes are interpretive, but some also provide historical and cultural contexts or help to resurrect other nuances of meaning. Because it does not constitute a particular “reading” of, or “take” on, the novel, the Companion will appeal to a wide range of users. Rather than attempting to make final sense of the novel, the Companion exposes and demystifies Pynchon’s intent to play with our conventional attitudes about fiction.

Author : J. Kerry Grant
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820332089

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A Companion to The Crying of Lot 49 by J. Kerry Grant Pdf

Contains more than 500 notes keyed to the "2006 Harper Perennial Modern Classics", the "1986 Harper Perennial Library", and the 1967 Bantam editions. This edition adds quotations and paraphrases drawn from criticism published since 1994. It includes more than fifty annotations that have been added and eighty annotations that have been expanded.

Author : Patrick Hurley
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476612812

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Pynchon Character Names by Patrick Hurley Pdf

The dictionary lists each character from Pynchon’s fiction up through his most recent novel, including the most likely etymology of each name. In addition, the thorough introduction examines Pynchon’s character names as a part of his greater literary strategy, establishing a set of categories through which most of the names may be understood.

Author : Jeffrey Severs,Christopher Leise
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1611490650

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Pynchon's Against the Day by Jeffrey Severs,Christopher Leise Pdf

The first book of criticism devoted to Pynschon's massive 2006 novel, Pynchon's Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide gathers new work by more than a dozen scholars, offering readings informed by the newest developments in narratology, genre studies, ecocriticism, globalism, and the histories of science and religion. This title also offers fresh perspectives on divisive issues within Pynchon studies, such as anarchism, gender, and reviewers' reception of his recent work. What emerges is a novel that will come to be seen, these essays argue, as a major part of Pynchon's storied legacy and a key work of the "late Pynchon."

Author : Shawn Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135492649

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Pynchon and History by Shawn Smith Pdf

First Published in 2005. While many previous books on Pynchon allude to his fictional engagement with historical events and figures, this book explores Pynchon as a historical novelist and, by extension, historical thinker. The book interprets Pynchon's four major novels V., Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland, and Mason & Dixon through the prism of historical interpretation and representation. In doing so, it argues that Pynchon's innovative narrative techniques express his philosophy of history and historical representation through the form of his texts.

Author : Niran Bahjat Abbas
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : David Cowart
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Joanna Freer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,5 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.