Dream tonight of peacock tails : essays on the fiftieth anniversary of Thomas Pynchon's V. / edited by Paolo Simonetti and Umberto Rossi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simonetti, Paolo, editor.

Rossi, Umberto, 1960- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychological fiction, American--History and criticism.

Pynchon, Thomas V.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (222 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

Dream Tonight of Peacock Tails marks the first in-depth examination of Pynchon's debut novel, which was immediately recognized as a breakthrough masterpiece. The eight essays collected in the volume provide both scholars and avid readers with new and original insights into a too-often underestimated work that, probably even more than Gravity's Rainbow, established Pynchon as one of the great masters of twentieth-century American literature. This book deliberately privileges a multidisciplinary and transnational approach, encompassing collaborations from a particularly international and diverse

Contents:

Introduction : dream tonight of Thomas Pynchon

Part One: Re-visions. Monkey business : the chapter "millennium" removed from an early version of V. / Luc Herman and John M. Krafft ; Cherchez la femme : the coercive paratexts of Thomas Pynchon's V. / Tore Rye Andersen ; Traveling and spying into Baedeker's land : (re)living and (re)telling the great game, political tourism and other Victorian intelligence activities in Thomas Pynchon's V. / Mario Faraone ; Re-reading V. in the emergency of the crisis / Stipe Grgas

Part Two: V-locations. Florence, or Pynchon's Italian job / Umberto Rossi ; "Paris for love"? / Clément Lévy ; Katabasis, Orpheus, and alligators : V.'s various underworlds / Jennifer Backman ; "He could go to Malta and possibly end it" : Malta as "prime location" in the epilogue of V. / Paolo Simonetti

V. : a bibliography / Mario Faraone.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8151-1

OCLC:

922704093