You might also like

More about Thomas Pynchon

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 244 loyalty points

Book synopsis

This is a comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature. Over a writing career spanning more than fifty years, Thomas Pynchon has been at the forefront of America's engagement with postmodern literary possibilities. In chapters that address the full range of Pynchon's career, from his earliest short stories and first novel, V., to his most recent work, this book offers highly accessible and detailed readings of a writer whose work is indispensable to understanding how the American novel has met the challenges of postmodernity. The authors discuss Pynchon's relationship to literary history, his engagement with discourses of science and utopianism, his interrogation of imperialism and his preoccupation with the paranoid sensibility. Invaluable to Pynchon scholars and to everyone working in the field of contemporary American fiction, this study explores how Pynchon's complex narratives work both as exuberant examples of formal experimentation and as serious interventions in the political health of the nation.

Book details

Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

• Full title: Thomas Pynchon
• Author: Simon Malpas
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780719076282
• ISBN: 0719076285
• ID: 02607634
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
• Weight: 444 g
• Dimensions: 222 × 146 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. September 2013

Trending among others

---

---

---