Keita Hatooka

Thomas Pynchon's Animal Tales (eBook, ePUB)

Fables for Ecocriticism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Throughout his works, Thomas Pynchon uses various animal characters to narrate fables that are vital to postmodernism and ecocriticism. Thomas Pynchon's Animal Tales: Fables for Ecocriticism examines case studies of animal representation in Pynchon's texts, such as alligators in the sewer in V.; the alligator purse in Bleeding Edge; dolphins in the Miami Seaquarium in The Crying of Lot 49; dodoes, pigs, and octopuses in Gravity's Rainbow; Bigfoot and Godzilla in Vineland and Inherent Vice; and preternatural dogs and mythical worms in Mason & Dixon and Against the Day. Through this exploration, Keita Hatooka illuminates how radically and imaginatively the legendary novelist depicts his empathy for nonhuman beings. Furthermore, by conducting a comparative study of Pynchon's narratives and his contemporary documentarians and thinkers, Thomas Pynchon's Animal Tales leads readers to draw great lessons from the fables, which stimulate our ecocritical thought for tomorrow.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781793655882
• Artikelnr.: 65848138

Autorenporträt

Keita Hatooka is professor of adaptation studies in the Graduate School of Science and Technology at Meiji University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: For Whom the Fable Says: Pynchon, Lyotard, and Carson
Chapter 1. Who Caught the Blood of the Alligator? V.
Chapter 2. The Dolphin Jumped over the Moon: The Crying of Lot 49
Chapter 3. What We Talk about When We Talk about Extinction: Gravity's
Rainbow
Chapter 4. Who's Afraid of the Big Badass? Vineland and Inherent Vice
Chapter 5. Sonnets for a Multispecies Cradle: Mason & Dixon and Against the
Day
Chapter 6. The Lady with the Alligator Purse: Bleeding Edge and Jonathan
Safran Foer
Conclusion: And Then There Were None (Except for Nature on the Screen):
Documentary Guys, Grizzly Man, and Thomas Pynchon