Thomas Pynchon and the dark passages of history / David Cowart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cowart, David, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pynchon, Thomas--Criticism and interpretation.

Pynchon, Thomas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For David Cowart, Thomas 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. This book 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. -- from Back Cover

Contents:

Introduction: Calibrating Clio

Prospero's apprenticeship: slow learner

History and myth: Pynchon's V

Streben nach dem unendlichen: Germany and German culture in Pynchon's early work

Pynchon and the sixties: the California novels

The luddite vision: Mason & Dixon

Pynchon, genealogy, history: Against the day

The historiographer historicized: Pynchon and literary history.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613432025

9781283432023

1283432021

9780820337098

0820337099

OCLC:

775075464