Thomas Pynchon in context / edited by Inger H. Dalsgaard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dalsgaard, Inger H., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pynchon, Thomas--Criticism and interpretation.

Pynchon, Thomas.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxi, 390 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"Introduction Inger H. Dalsgaard Thomas Pynchon has long had a place in the pantheon of Great American Writers. His status lies in the scope of his work - the number of publications, the prodigious detail and expansiveness of his topics - as well as the sheer quality of his writing, all of which quickly led to comparisons with Herman Melville and James Joyce. His writing is widely taught (as part of required literature survey courses at universities, for example), and remains the subject of many scholarly articles, dissertations and monographs not just in the United States and other English-speaking countries, as one might expect, but also across Europe and Asia. According to the database of publications compiled on Vheissu.net, more than 400 doctoral dissertations have been accepted and more than 100 monographs and essay collections published on his writing already, mostly in English but also in other languages such as Spanish, Italian and German, with a handful from publishers in Korea, China and Japan. However, Pynchon is not just a canonical writer within scholarly research and teaching communities. Because of their scope and imaginative richness, his novels also have great appeal outside academia, and many devoted readers share their interest in his novels on websites dedicated to exploring his work. It is to help all such readers and students that Thomas Pynchon in Context brings together forty-four essays by some of the foremost specialists in the field, providing the most comprehensive resource yet published on the many ways in which his writing engages the wider world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Biography / John M. Krafft

Letters and juvenilia / Albert Rolls

Nonfiction / Katie Muth

East Coast / Christopher Leise

West Coast / Scott McClintock and John Miller

Europe and Asia / J. Paul Narkunas

Africa and Latin America / Michael Harris

Geographies and mapping / Sascha Pohlmann

The eighteenth century / Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds

The nineteenth century / Paolo Simonetti

The twentieth century / Steven Weisenburger

The twenty-first century / Celia Wallhead

History and metahistory / David Cowart

Family / Mark Rohland

Sex and gender / Ali Chetwynd and Georgios Maragos

Humor / Doug Haynes

Popular culture / Eric Sandberg

Music and sound / Justin St. Clair

Film and television / John Dugdale

Real estate and the internet / Inger H. Dalsgaard

Politics and counterculture / Joanna Freer

Drugs and hippies / Umberto Rossi

Ecology and the environment / Christopher K. Coffman

Capitalism and class / Jeffrey Severs

War and power / Dale Carter

Conspiracy and paranoia / Samuel Chase Coale

Terror and anarchy / James Gourley

Science and technology / Gilles Chamerois

Mathematics / Nina Engelhardt

Time and relativity / Simon de Bourcier

Philosophy / Martin Paul Eve

Religion and spirituality / Richard Moss

Death and afterlife / Tiina Kakela

Narratology / Luc Herman

Genre / Zofia Kolbuszewska

Postmodernism / Brian McHale

Ambiguity / Deborah L. Madsen

Realities / Kathryn Hume

Material readings / Tore Rye Andersen

Digital readings / Joseph Tabbi

Internet resources / Michel Ryckx and Tim Ware

Fandom / David Kipen

Book reviews and reception / Douglas Keesey

Critical literature review / Hanjo Berressem.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108497022

1108497020

OCLC:

1085575524