The first book of criticism devoted to Pynschon's massive 2006 novel, Pynchon's 'Against the Day': A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide gathers new work by more than a dozen scholars, offering readings informed by the newest developments in narratology, genre studies, ecocriticism, globalism, and the histories of science and religion. This title also offers fresh perspectives on divisive issues within Pynchon studies such as anarchism, gender, and reviewers' reception of his recent work. What emerges is a novel that will come to be seen, these essays argue, as a major part of Pynchon's storied legacy and a key work of the 'late Pynchon.'…mehr
The first book of criticism devoted to Pynschon's massive 2006 novel, Pynchon's 'Against the Day': A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide gathers new work by more than a dozen scholars, offering readings informed by the newest developments in narratology, genre studies, ecocriticism, globalism, and the histories of science and religion. This title also offers fresh perspectives on divisive issues within Pynchon studies such as anarchism, gender, and reviewers' reception of his recent work. What emerges is a novel that will come to be seen, these essays argue, as a major part of Pynchon's storied legacy and a key work of the 'late Pynchon.'
Jeffrey Severs is assistant professor in the English Department at the University of British Columbia. Christopher Leise is assistant professor of English at Whitman College. He is co-editor of, and contributor to, William Gaddis, 'The Last of Something': Critical Essays (McFarland, 2010).
Inhaltsangabe
Chapter 1 Introduction: "Exceeding the Usual Three Dimensions": Collective Visions of the Unsuspected Part 2 Part I: Narrative Strategies Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Genre as History: Pynchon's Genre-Poaching Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Plots, Pilgrimage, and the Politcs of Genre in Against the Day. Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Mapping, the Unmappable, and Pynchon's Anti-Tragic Vision Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Binocular Disparity and Pynchon's Panoramic Paradigm Part 7 Part II: Science, Belief, and Faith Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Bogomilism, Orphism, Shamanism: The Spiritual and Spatial Grounds of Pynchon's Ecological Ethic Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Readers and Trespassers: Time Travel, Orthogonal time, and Alternative Figurations of time in Against the Day Chapter 10 Chapter 7: Narrating Tesla in Against the Day Part 11 Part III: Politics and Economics Chapter 12 Chapter 8: The Religious and Political Vision of Against the Day 13 Chapter 9: Daydreams and Dynamite: Anarchist Strategies of Resistance and Paths for Transformation in Against the Day 14 Chapter 10: "The abstractions she was instructed to embody": Women, Capitalism, and Artistic Representation in Against the Day 15 Chapter 11: Europe's "Eastern Question" and the United States' "Western Question": Representing Ethnic Wars in Against the Day
Chapter 1 Introduction: "Exceeding the Usual Three Dimensions": Collective Visions of the Unsuspected Part 2 Part I: Narrative Strategies Chapter 3 Chapter 1: Genre as History: Pynchon's Genre-Poaching Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Plots, Pilgrimage, and the Politcs of Genre in Against the Day. Chapter 5 Chapter 3: Mapping, the Unmappable, and Pynchon's Anti-Tragic Vision Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Binocular Disparity and Pynchon's Panoramic Paradigm Part 7 Part II: Science, Belief, and Faith Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Bogomilism, Orphism, Shamanism: The Spiritual and Spatial Grounds of Pynchon's Ecological Ethic Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Readers and Trespassers: Time Travel, Orthogonal time, and Alternative Figurations of time in Against the Day Chapter 10 Chapter 7: Narrating Tesla in Against the Day Part 11 Part III: Politics and Economics Chapter 12 Chapter 8: The Religious and Political Vision of Against the Day 13 Chapter 9: Daydreams and Dynamite: Anarchist Strategies of Resistance and Paths for Transformation in Against the Day 14 Chapter 10: "The abstractions she was instructed to embody": Women, Capitalism, and Artistic Representation in Against the Day 15 Chapter 11: Europe's "Eastern Question" and the United States' "Western Question": Representing Ethnic Wars in Against the Day
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