New book: Thomas Pynchon in Context

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Excellent. Thanks for the recommendation.

JB

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> On 16 Jul 2019, at 21:12, Christian Hänggi <pynchon-list at haenggi.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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