Pynchon's California Paperback / softback
by John Miller
Edited by Scott McClintock
Part of the The New American Canon: The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture series
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Pynchon's California is the first book to examine Thomas Pynchon's use of California as a setting in his novels.
Throughout his 50-year career, Pynchon has regularly returned to the Golden State in his fiction.
With the publication in 2009 of his third novel set there, the significance of California in Pynchon's evolving fictional project becomes increasingly worthy of study.
Scott McClintock and John Miller have gathered essays from leading and up-and-coming Pynchon scholars who explore this topic from a variety of critical perspectives, reflecting the diversity and eclecticism of Pynchon's fiction and of the state that has served as his recurring muse from The Crying of Lot 49 (1965) through Inherent Vice (2009). Contributors explore such topics as the relationship of the "California novels" to Pynchon's more historical and encyclopaedic works; the significance of California's beaches, deserts, forests, freeways, and "hieroglyphic" suburban sprawl; the California-inspired noir tradition; and the surprising connections to be uncovered between drug use and realism, melodrama and real estate, private detection and the sacred.
The authors bring insights to bear from an array of critical, social, and historical discourses, offering new ways of looking not only at Pynchon's California novels, but at his entire oeuvre.
They explore both how the history, geography, and culture of California have informed Pynchon's work and how Pynchon's ever-skeptical critical eye has been turned on the state that has been, in many ways, the flagship for postmodern American culture.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:228 pages, 1 black & white photograph
- Publisher:University of Iowa Press
- Publication Date:30/10/2014
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- ISBN:9781609382735
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:228 pages, 1 black & white photograph
- Publisher:University of Iowa Press
- Publication Date:30/10/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9781609382735