Keita Hatooka

Thomas Pynchon's Animal Tales

Fables for Ecocriticism

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Produktbeschreibung

Through examining case studies of animal representation in Thomas Pynchon’s works, Hatooka illuminates how radically and imaginatively the legendary novelist depicts his empathy for nonhuman beings and conducts conducting a comparative study of Pynchon’s narratives and his contemporary documentarians and thinkers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 401g
• ISBN-13: 9781793655875
• ISBN-10: 1793655871
• Artikelnr.: 64266962

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