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Thomas Pynchon
Malpas, Simon; Taylor, Andrew
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Description for Thomas Pynchon
A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon Series: Contemporary American & Canadian Writers. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 24. Weight in Grams: 444.
This is a comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature. Over a writing career spanning more than fifty years, Thomas Pynchon has been at the forefront of America’s engagement with postmodern literary possibilities. In chapters that address the full range of Pynchon’s career, from his earliest short stories and first novel, V., to his most recent work, this book offers highly accessible and detailed readings of a writer whose work is indispensable to understanding how the American novel has met the challenges of postmodernity. The authors discuss Pynchon’s relationship to literary history, his engagement with discourses ... Read more
This is a comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature. Over a writing career spanning more than fifty years, Thomas Pynchon has been at the forefront of America’s engagement with postmodern literary possibilities. In chapters that address the full range of Pynchon’s career, from his earliest short stories and first novel, V., to his most recent work, this book offers highly accessible and detailed readings of a writer whose work is indispensable to understanding how the American novel has met the challenges of postmodernity. The authors discuss Pynchon’s relationship to literary history, his engagement with discourses ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
Number of Pages
256
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719076282
SKU
V9780719076282
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About Malpas, Simon; Taylor, Andrew
Andrew Taylor and Simon Malpas are Senior Lecturers in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh -- .
Reviews for Thomas Pynchon
Malpas and Taylor are indeed stimulating. Their study provides a clear, lucid discussion of several key themes in Pynchon’s novels, chief amongst which are paranoia, the emancipatory power of fantasy and alternative modes of perception, and the ‘subjunctive potentiality’ of spaces of resistance. Malpas and Taylor’s analysis is always illuminating, and their analysis of space in particular ensures that their ... Read more