Pynchon's Against the day : a corrupted pilgrim's guide / edited by Jeffrey Severs and Christopher Leise.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Severs, Jeffrey, 1974-

Leise, Christopher, 1978-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Disasters--Forecasting--Fiction.

Disasters.

Pynchon, Thomas. Against the day.

Pynchon, Thomas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (479 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : University of Delaware Press/Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 le

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Notes on the Text; Introduction; "Exceeding the Usual Three Dimensions": Collective Visions of the Unsuspected; I; Narrative Strategies; 1; Genre as History: Pynchon's Genre-Poaching; 2; Plots, Pilgrimage, and the Politics of Genre in Against the Day; 3; Mapping, the Unmappable, and Pynchon's Antitragic Vision; 4; Binocular Disparity and Pynchon's Panoramic Paradigm; II; Science, Belief, and Faith; 5; Bogomilism, Orphism, Shamanism: The Spiritual and Spatial Grounds of Pynchon's Ecological Ethic; 6

Readers and Trespassers: Time Travel, Orthogonal Time, and Alternative Figurations of Time in Against the Day7; Narrating Tesla in Against the Day; III; Politics and Economics; 8; The Religious and Political Vision of Against the Day; 9; Daydreams and Dynamite: Anarchist Strategies of Resistance and Paths for Transformation in Against the Day; 10; "The abstractions she was instructed to embody": Women, Capitalism, and Artistic Representation in Against the Day; 11; Europe's "Eastern Question" and the United States' "Western Question": Representing Ethnic Wars in Against the Day; Works Cited

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Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-61149-746-9

1-283-01441-6

9786613014412

1-61149-065-0

OCLC:

703137675