The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon Paperback / softback
Edited by Inger H. (Aarhus Universitet, Denmark) Dalsgaard, Luc (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium) Herman, Brian (Ohio State University) McHale
Part of the Cambridge Companions to Literature series
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The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers.
This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge.
Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches Pynchon's fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an international roster of scholars at the cutting edge of Pynchon studies.
Part I covers Pynchon's fiction novel-by-novel from the 1960s to the present, including such indisputable classics as The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow.
Part II zooms out to give a bird's-eye-view of Pynchon's novelistic practice across his entire career.
Part III surveys major topics of Pynchon's fiction: history, politics, alterity ('otherness') and science and technology.
Designed for students, scholars and fans alike, the Companion begins with a biography of the elusive author and ends with a coda on how to read Pynchon and a bibliography for further reading.
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:15/12/2011
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- ISBN:9780521173049
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:212 pages, Worked examples or Exercises; Printed music items
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:15/12/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521173049