Thomas Pynchon in context
edited by Inger H. Dalsgaard
Bok · Engelsk · 2019
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| Omfang | xxi, 390 sider
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| Opplysninger | 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.. - "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"--
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| ISBN | 9781108497022. - 9781108739436
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