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Pynchon and the Political
Author | : Samuel Thomas |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2010-04-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781135911416 |
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Thomas Pynchon's writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form of postmodern fiction. It is characterized as genre-defying and enigmatic, as a series of complex and esoteric language games. This study attempts to demonstrate, however, that an oblique yet compelling sense of the "political" Pynchon disappers all too easily under the mantle of postmodernity. Innovative and unsettling discussions of freedom, war, labor, poverty, community, democracy, and totalitarianism are passed over in favor of constrictive scientific metaphors and theoretical play. Against this current, this study analyzes Pynchon's fiction in terms of its radical dimension, showing how it points to new directions in the relationship between the political and the aesthetic.
Occupy Pynchon
Author | : Sean Carswell |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2017-05-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780820350899 |
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Occupy Pynchon 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 metaphysical bent of his first three novels and share a great deal in common with the work of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s critical trilogy, Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth. In both cases, the authors describe global power as a horizontal network of multinational corporations, national governments, and supranational institutions. Pynchon, as do Hardt and Negri, theorizes resistance as a horizontal network of individuals who work together, without sacrificing their singularities, to resist the political and economic exploitation of empire. Carswell enriches this examination of Pynchon’s politics—as made evident in Vineland (1990), Mason & Dixon (1997), Against the Day (2006), Inherent Vice (2009), and Bleeding Edge (2013)—by reading the novels alongside the global resistance movements of the early 2010s. Beginning with the Arab Spring and progressing into the Occupy Movement, political activists engaged in a global uprising. The ensuing struggle mirrored Pynchon’s concepts of power and resistance, and Occupy activists in particular constructed their movement around the same philosophical tradition from which Pynchon, as well as Hardt and Negri, emerges. This exploration of Pynchon shines a new light on Pynchon studies, recasting his post-1970s fiction as central to his vision of resisting global neoliberal capitalism.
Pynchon and the Political
Author | : Samuel Thomas |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2010-04-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781135911423 |
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Thomas Pynchon's writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form of postmodern fiction. It is characterized as genre-defying and enigmatic, as a series of complex and esoteric language games. This study attempts to demonstrate, however, that an oblique yet compelling sense of the "political" Pynchon disappears all too easily under the mantle of postmodernity. Innovative and unsettling discussions of freedom, war, labour, poverty, community, democracy, and totalitarianism are passed over in favour of constrictive scientific metaphors and theoretical play. Against this current, this study analyses Pynchon's fiction in terms of its radical dimension, showing how it points to new directions in the relationship between the political and the aesthetic.
The Political Imagination of Thomas Pynchon s Later Novels
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9735589931 |
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Everybody s America
Author | : David Witzling |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780415979252 |
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Emphasizing the relationship between Pynchon's formal experimentation and his interest in American and international race relations, this book argues that an ambivalent reaction to the emergence of identity politics and multiculturalism is central to Pynchon's work and, more generally, to the advent of postmodernism in United States culture.
Fictions of Authority
Author | : Susan Sniader Lanser |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781501723087 |
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Drawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wide range of novels by women of England, France, and the United States from the 1740s to the present. She sheds light on the history of "voice" as a narrative strategy and as a means of attaining social power. She considers the dynamics in personal voice in authors such as Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jamaica Kincaid. In writers who attempt a "communal voice"—including Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Gaskell, Joan Chase, and Monique Wittig—she finds innovative strategies that challenge the conventions of Western narrative.
Thomas Pynchon in Context
Author | : Inger H. Dalsgaard |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-06-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108497020 |
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Thomas Pynchon in Context guides students, scholars and other readers through the global scope and prolific imagination of Pynchon's challenging, canonical work, providing the most up-to-date and authoritative scholarly analyses of his writing. This book is divided into three parts. The first, 'Times and Places', sets out the history and geographical contexts both for the setting of Pynchon's novels and his own life. The second, 'Culture, Politics and Society', examines twenty important and recurring themes which most clearly define Pynchon's writing - ranging from ideas in philosophy and the sciences to humor and pop culture. The final part, 'Approaches and Readings', outlines and assesses ways to read and understand Pynchon. Consisting of Forty-four essays written by some of the world's leading scholars, this volume outlines the most important contexts for understanding Pynchon's writing and helps readers interpret and reference his literary work.
The New Pynchon Studies
Author | : Joanna Freer |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2019-05-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781108474467 |
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The essays in this collection are at the forefront of Pynchon studies, representing distinctively twenty-first century approaches to his work.