Jeffrey Severs, Christopher Leise

Pynchon's Against the Day (eBook, ePUB)

A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Thomas Pynchon's longest novel to date, Against the Day (2006), excited diverse and energetic opinions when it appeared on bookstore shelves nine years after the critically acclaimed Mason & Dixon. Its wide-ranging plot covers nearly three decades-from the 1893 World's Fair to the years just after World War I-and follows hundreds of characters within its 1085 pages. The book's eleven essays by established luminaries and emerging voices in the field of Pynchon criticism, address a significant aspect of the novel's manifold interests. By focusing on three major thematic trajectories (the novel's narrative strategies; its commentary on science, belief, and faith; and its views on politics and economics), the contributors contend that Against the Day is not only a major addition to Pynchon's already impressive body of work, but also a defining moment in the emergence of twenty-first century American literature.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611490657
• Artikelnr.: 38333226

Autorenporträt

By Jeffrey Severs and Christopher Leise - Contributions by Graham Benton; Christopher K. Coffman; Inger H. Dals...