Dream Tonight of Peacock Tails

[Dave Monroe]

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On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dream Tonight of Peacock Tails
> Essays on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Thomas Pynchon’s V.
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> Editor(s):Paolo Simonetti, Umberto Rossi
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> Dream Tonight of Peacock Tails marks the first in-depth examination of
> Pynchon’s debut novel, which was immediately recognized as a
> breakthrough masterpiece. The eight essays collected in the volume
> provide both scholars and avid readers with new and original insights
> into a too-often underestimated work that, probably even more than
> Gravity’s Rainbow, established Pynchon as one of the great masters of
> twentieth-century American literature.
>
> This book deliberately privileges a multidisciplinary and
> transnational approach, encompassing collaborations from a
> particularly international and diverse academic context. As such, this
> volume offers a multifaceted pattern of expanding investigation that
> tackles the novel’s apparently chaotic but meticulously organized
> structure by rereading it in the light of recent US and European
> history and economics, as well as by exploring its many real and
> imagined locations. Not only are the essays brought together here
> revelatory of Pynchon’s way of working, but they also tell us
> something about our own ways of approaching his fiction.
>
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