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Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon. In the "New York Times" bestseller" Inherent Vic[...]

Now available in paperback, 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 add[...]

For David Cowart, Thomas Pynchon's most profound teachings are about history- history as myth, as rhetorical construct, as false consciousness, as prologue, as mirror, and as seedbed of national and literary identities. In one encyclopedic novel after another, Pynchon has reconceptualized historical[...]

Thomas Pynchon's fiction has been considered masculinist, misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem. To the present day, deep critical divisions persist as to whether [...]

Thomas Pynchon and the 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[...]

"Thomas Pynchon and the Postmodern Mythology of the Underworld" is devoted to the work of one of the most highly acclaimed writers of the post-World War II period of American literature, Thomas Pynchon. Through close readings and broad amplification, this book illustrates that the descent to the und[...]

Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the labor troubles in Colorado to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious Tungus[...]

This volume is a collection of essays by various academics looking at how identity is shaped, gendered, and contested throughout PynchonOs work. By exploring sociological, anthropological, literary, and political dimensions, the contributors revise important ideas in the debate over individualism us[...]

Vi følger den forvirrede, desillusjonerte og festglade Benny Profane i drift gjennom sekstitallets New York. Vi lusker i Nord-Afrikas spionmiljø i 1890-årene og i Firenzes mørklagte gater, forskanses i ingenmannsland i det sørlige Afrika hos fordrukne europeiske kolonister omgitt av opprørere,[...]

Naturlige mangler er ? kort fortalt ? en noir detektivroman, men ikke en helt normal af slagsen. Hovedpersonen Doc Sportello er ikke en hårdkogt privatdetektiv a la Chandlers Philip Marlowe, men en mere blødkogt version - en evigt potrygende hippie, der dårligt kan få sig til at kræve betaling[...]

Den då tjugosexårige Tomas Pynchons nu femtio år gamla debutroman V. för första gången på svenska. V. är en civilisationskritisk romanberättelse med nedslag i olika tider och rum: Kairo 1898, Florens 1899, Paris 1913, tyska Syd-väst Afrika 1922, Malta på 40-talet och under kriget samt New[...]