Описание: Is time an illusion? Do past, present, and future co-exist in a timeless whole, or are our experiences of change and duration the reality of time? Thomas Pynchon's writing has always been interested in the interplay of these two ways of thinking about time, but his recent fiction has also taken on the task of imaginatively responding to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, which in the early years of the twentieth century renewed this ancient debate. In this book, Simon de Bourcier looks in detail at Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day, which is set during the period in which Einstein published his world-changing theory, and 1997's Mason & Dixon, set in the eighteenth century when Isaac Newton's picture of a world governed by absolute space and time was unchallenged. By comparing these two novels, Pynchon and Relativity shows that Pynchon's tales of loss, haunting, and time travel are informed by a sophisticated awareness of the philosophical implications of Relativity. The book goes on to examine the consequences of this for our reading of Pynchon's other work.
Автор: A. W. McHoul; David Wills Название: Writing Pynchon ISBN: 0333515099 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333515099 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 2794.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores some of the ways in which contemporary literary theory can be used to read fiction. In particular, it focuses on Thomas Pynchon`s three novels to date and his collection of early stories. The theories exploited are concentrated in the work of Jacques Derrida.
Автор: Freer Название: Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture ISBN: 1107429714 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107429710 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture employs the revolutionary sixties as a lens through which to view the anarchist politics of Pynchon's novels. Joanna Freer identifies and elucidates Pynchon's commentaries on such groups as the Beats, the New Left and the Black Panther Party and on such movements as the psychedelic movement and the women's movement, drawing out points of critique to build a picture of a complex countercultural sensibility at work in Pynchon's fiction. In emphasising the subtleties of Pynchon's responses to counterculture, Freer clarifies his importance as an intellectually rigorous political philosopher. She further suggests that, like the graffiti in Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon creates texts that are 'revealed in order to be thought about, expanded on, translated into action by the people', his early attraction to core countercultural values growing into a conscious, politically motivated writing project that reaches its most mature expression in Against the Day.
Автор: Eve Название: Pynchon and Philosophy ISBN: 113740549X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137405494 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Pynchon and Philosophy radically reworks our readings of Thomas Pynchon alongside the theoretical perspectives of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno. Rigorous yet readable, Pynchon and Philosophy seeks to recover philosophical readings of Pynchon that work harmoniously, rather than antagonistically, resulting in a wholly fresh approach.
Автор: Inger H. Dalsgaard Название: Thomas Pynchon in Context ISBN: 1108497020 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108497022 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 17266.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book guides readers through the global scope and prolific imagination of Pynchon`s canonical work, providing the most up-to-date and authoritative scholarly analyses of his writing. It will be of interest to students, graduates and instructors studying and teaching Thomas Pynchon.
Автор: Joanna Freer Название: The New Pynchon Studies ISBN: 1108474462 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108474467 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is aimed at both established scholars and graduate students. Informed by twenty-first-century theoretical, political, and analytical developments, it provides established scholars with a useful overview of new directions in Pynchon scholarship. For students, it brings together essays that cover a broad range of topics and new approaches.
Virtually all theories of satire define it as a criticism of contemporary society. Some argue that satire criticizes the present in favor of a standard of values that has been superseded, and thus that satire is generally backward-looking and conservative. While this is often true of poetic satire, in this study Frank Palmeri asserts that narrative satire performs a different function, that it parodies both the established view of the world and that of its opponents, offering its own distinctive critical perspective.
This theory of satire builds on the idea of dialogical parody in the work of Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, while revising Bakhtin's estimate of carnival. In Palmeri's view, the carnivalesque offers only an inverted mirror image of authoritative discourse, while parodic narrative satire suggests an alternative to both the official world and its inverted opposite.
Palmeri applies this theory of narrative satire to five works of world literature, each of which has generated sharp controversy about the genre to which it rightly belongs: Petronius' Satyricon, Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub, Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man, and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49. He analyzes the features that link these works and shows how the changing pairs of alternatives that are parodied in these satires reflect changes in the terms of social and cultural oppositions.
Satire in Narrative will appeal to comparatists, specialists in eighteenth-century and American literature, and others interested in theories of genre and the relations between literary forms and social history.
Автор: Sean Carswell Название: Occupy Pynchon: Politics after Gravity`s Rainbow ISBN: 0820350885 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820350882 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 7900.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Examines power and resistance in the writer`s post-Gravity`s Rainbow novels. As Sean Carswell shows, Pynchon`s representations of global power after the neoliberal revolution of the 1980s shed the paranoia and meta-physical bent of his first three novels and share a great deal in common with the work of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri`s trilogy, Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth.
Автор: Chetwynd Ali, Freer Joanna, Maragos Georgios Название: Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender ISBN: 0820354015 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820354019 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 5267.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: As the first book-length investigation of Thomas Pynchon`s writing to put the topics of sex and gender at its core, this book moves beyond binary debates about whether to see Pynchon as liberatory or conservative, instead examining how his preoccupation with sex and gender conditions his fiction`s whole worldview.
Описание: In this provocative study, Shelly Brivic presents the history of the twentieth-century American novel as a continuous narrative dialogue between white and black voices. Exploring four of the most renowned and challenging works written between 1930 and 1990 - William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Richard Wright's Native Son, Thomas Pynchon's V., and Toni Morrison's Beloved - Brivic traces how these works progress through the interaction of white and black perspectives toward confronting the calamity of slavery and its reverberating aftermath and continuing legacy. Brivic shows how one novel leads ineluctably to the next and how the four works in a sense form one continuous narrative: with Faulkner's attack on the racial system in Absalom, Absalom! in the 1930s, a literary space opened for Wright's devastating novel of protest. Through the character of Bigger Thomas, Wright's Native Son exposes a virtually incurable division in American ideologies, which leads to the multiplying perspectives of postmodernism in Pynchon's V. Arriving at the crest of the civil rights movement, V. questions Western systems of control, laying a foundation for a world outside the white one, and so providing a basis for the African view of reality presented in Morrison's Beloved. The emergence of African consciousness in American literature exemplified across these works has had, and continues to have, Brivic concludes, the potential not only to redress ongoing injustices but to bring about a new conception of the American universe and its laws of reality. Striking in both the selection of novels and the connections Brivic draws among them, Tears of Rage advances understanding of the destructive nature of racism and the possibilities for overcoming its effects through literature.
Описание: First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Автор: Dalsgaard Название: The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon ISBN: 0521769744 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521769747 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 13147.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Comprehensive, accessible and up-to-date, this book approaches the challenging fiction of the American postmodern master Thomas Pynchon from many different angles. Designed for students, scholars and fans alike, it covers the elusive author`s biography and all seven of his novels, surveying topics such as history, politics and science and technology.
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