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Author : Inger H. Dalsgaard,Luc Herman,Brian McHale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521769747
This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1102641000
Comprehensive, accessible and up-to-date, this book approaches the challenging fiction of the American postmodern master Thomas Pynchon from many different angles. Designed for students, scholars and fans alike, it covers the elusive author's biography and all seven of his novels, surveying topics such as history, politics and science and technology.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1107485401
"The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches Pynchon's fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an international roster of scholars at the cutting edge of Pynchon studies. Part I covers Pynchon's fiction novel-by-novel from the 1960s to the present, including such indisputable classics as The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow. Part II zooms out to give a bird's-eye-view of Pynchon's novelistic practice across his entire career. Part III surveys major topics of Pynchon's fiction: history, politics, alterity ('otherness') and science and technology. Designed for students, scholars and fans alike, the Companion begins with a biography of the elusive author and ends with a coda on how to read Pynchon and a bibliography for further reading"--
Author : Steven C. Weisenburger
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 Weisenburger takes the reader page by page, often line by line, through the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes, and puns around which Pynchon wove his story.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 : Timothy Parrish
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107013131
This volume provides newly commissioned essays from leading scholars and critics on the social and cultural history of the novel in America. It explores the work of the most influential American novelists of the past 200 years, including Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Cather, Faulkner, Ellison, Pynchon, and Morrison.
Author : John N. Duvall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521196314
A comprehensive 2011 guide to the genres, historical contexts, cultural diversity and major authors of American fiction since the Second World War.
Author : J. Kerry Grant
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820322513
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 : Inger H. Dalsgaard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108752701
Thomas Pynchon in Context guides students, scholars and other readers through the global scope and prolific imagination of Pynchon's challenging, canonical work, providing the most up-to-date and authoritative scholarly analyses of his writing. This book is divided into three parts. The first, 'Times and Places', sets out the history and geographical contexts both for the setting of Pynchon's novels and his own life. The second, 'Culture, Politics and Society', examines twenty important and recurring themes which most clearly define Pynchon's writing - ranging from ideas in philosophy and the sciences to humor and pop culture. The final part, 'Approaches and Readings', outlines and assesses ways to read and understand Pynchon. Consisting of Forty-four essays written by some of the world's leading scholars, this volume outlines the most important contexts for understanding Pynchon's writing and helps readers interpret and reference his literary work.
Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594612
Compiling five short stories originally written between 1959 and 1964, Slow Learner showcases Thomas Pynchon’s writing before the publication of his first novel V. The stories compiled here are “The Small Rain,” “Low-lands,” “Entropy,” “Under the Rose,” and “The Secret Integration,” along with an introduction by Pynchon himself.
Author : Joanna Freer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781108474467
The essays in this collection are at the forefront of Pynchon studies, representing distinctively twenty-first century approaches to his work.
Author : Luc Herman,Steven C. Weisenburger
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820345956
Herman and Weisenburger put the novel's abiding questions about freedom in context with sixties struggles against war, restricted speech rights, ethno-racial oppression, environmental degradation, and subtle new means of social and psychological control.
Author : J. Kerry Grant
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820332086
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 : David Cowart
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820337098
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 : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594605
The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.
Author : Nathan Waddell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781108841092
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four is aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates, and academics. Situating the novel in multiple frameworks, including contextual considerations and literary histories, the book asks new questions about the novel's significance in an age in which authoritarianism finds itself freshly empowered.