New book: Thomas Pynchon in Context

[Christian Hänggi]

  Much recommended.
If you can't afford it, try to bully your local library into buying it...

Zitat von bulb <bulb at vheissu.net>:

> Thomas Pynchon in Context
>
> Edited by Inger H. Dalsgaard, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark.
> Thomas Pynchon in Context guides students, scholars and other readers
> through the global scope and prolific imagination of Pynchon’s challenging,
> canonical work, providing the most up-to-date and authoritative scholarly
> analyses of his writing. This book is divided into three parts. The first,
> ‘Times and Places’, sets out the history and geographical contexts both for
> the setting of Pynchon’s novels and his own life. The second, ‘Culture,
> Politics and Society’, examines twenty important and recurring themes which
> most clearly define Pynchon’s writing - ranging from ideas in philosophy and
> the sciences to humor and pop culture. The final part, ‘Approaches and
> Readings’, outlines and assesses ways to read andunderstand Pynchon.
> Consisting of Forty-four essays written by some of the world’s leading
> scholars, this volume outlines the most important contexts for understanding
> Pynchon’s writing and helps readers interpret and reference his literary
> work.
>
> Chronology; Introduction;
>
> Part I. Times and Places: 1. Biography; 2. Letters and Juvenilia;; 3.
> Nonfiction; 4. East Coast; 5. West Coast; 6. Europe and Asia; 7. Africa and
> Latin America; 8. Geographies and Mapping; 9. Eighteenth Century; 10.
> Nineteenth Century; 11. Twentieth Century; 12. Twenty-First Century;13.
> History and Metahistory
>
> Part II. Culture, Politics and Society: 14. Family; 15. Sex and Gender; 16.
> Humor; 17. Popular culture; 18. Music and Sound; 19. Film and TV; 20. Real
> Estate and the Internet; 21. Politics and Counterculture; 22. Drugs and
> Hippies; 23. Ecology and the Environment; 24. Capitalism and Class; 25.War
> and Power; 26. Conspiracy and Paranoia; 27. Terror and Anarchy; 28. Science
> and Technology; 29. Mathematics; 30. Time and Relativity; 31. Philosophy;
> 32. Religion and Spirituality; 33. Death and Afterlife
>
> Part III. Approaches and Readings: 34. Narratology; 35. Genre; 36.
> Postmodernism; 37. Ambiguity; 38. Realities; 39. Material Readings; 40.
> Digital Readings; 41. Internet Resources; 42. Fandom; 43. Book Reviews and
> Reception; 44. Critical Literature Review
>
> Bibliography; Novels, Short Fiction, Nonfiction, Letters; Further Reading
>
> July 2019
> 228 x 152 mm   c.350pp
> Hardback  978-1-108-49702-2
> £70.00 / $120.00
>
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