Thomas Pynchon & the Dark Passages of History - Paperback
by David Cowart
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820340630ISBN-10:820340634UPC:9780820340630Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, Semiotics & TheorySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCC31YFRR8
Thomas Pynchon & the Dark Passages of History
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Georgia PressISBN-13:9780820340630ISBN-10:820340634UPC:9780820340630Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, Semiotics & TheorySize:8.90 x 5.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCC31YFRR8
In one encyclopedic novel after another, Thomas Pynchon has reconceptualized historical periods that he sees as culturally definitive. Examining Pynchon's entire body of work, David 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...
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
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