New book on Pynchon just out

[Michel]

Hmmm, sounds interesting.  This is from 
http://www.dur.ac.uk/english.studies/academicstaff/?mode=pdetail&id=5530&sid=5530&pdetail=52929


      Abstract

Thomas Pynchon's writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form 
of postmodern fiction. It is characterized as genre-defying and 
enigmatic, as a series of complex and esoteric language games. This 
study attempts to demonstrate, however, that an oblique yet compelling 
sense of the "political" Pynchon disappers all too easily under the 
mantle of postmodernity. Innovative and unsettling discussions of 
freedom, war, labor, poverty, community, democracy, and totalitarianism 
are passed over in favor of constrictive scientific metaphors and 
theoretical play. Against this current, this study analyzes Pynchon's 
fiction in terms of its radical dimension, showing how it points to new 
directions in the relationship between the political and the aesthetic.



Krafft, John M. Dr. schreef:
> Sam Thomas, of Malta Conference fame, has just had his book Pynchon and the Political published by Routledge. I haven't read it yet, but it's on order, and I'm looking forward to it!
>
> jmk



	

	
		
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