Pynchon And Relativity
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Author | : Simon de Bourcier |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2012-02-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1441130098 |
Draws on Einstein's Theory of Relativity to examine of the workings of narrative time in the novels of Thomas Pynchon, including Against the Day.
Author | : Simon De Bourcier |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
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Author | : Thomas Pynchon |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 1584 |
Release | : 2012-06-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101594667 |
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year Spanning the era between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the Day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it’s their lives that pursue them.
Author | : Martin Paul Eve |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2014-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137405503 |
Pynchon and Philosophy radically reworks our readings of Thomas Pynchon alongside the theoretical perspectives of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno. Rigorous yet readable, Pynchon and Philosophy seeks to recover philosophical readings of Pynchon that work harmoniously, rather than antagonistically, resulting in a wholly fresh approach.
Author | : Joanna Freer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2019-05-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1108474462 |
The essays in this collection are at the forefront of Pynchon studies, representing distinctively twenty-first century approaches to his work.
Author | : Sean M. Carroll |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2019-08-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1108488390 |
An accessible introductory textbook on general relativity, covering the theory's foundations, mathematical formalism and major applications.
Author | : Steven C. Weisenburger |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2011-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0820337641 |
Adding some 20 percent to the original content, this is a completely updated edition of Steven Weisenburger's indispensable guide to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Weisenburger takes the reader page by page, often line by line, through the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes, and puns around which Pynchon wove his story. Weisenburger fully annotates Pynchon's use of languages ranging from Russian and Hebrew to such subdialects of English as 1940s street talk, drug lingo, and military slang as well as the more obscure terminology of black magic, Rosicrucianism, and Pavlovian psychology. The Companion also reveals the underlying organization of Gravity's Rainbow--how the book's myriad references form patterns of meaning and structure that have eluded both admirers and critics of the novel. The Companion is keyed to the pages of the principal American editions of Gravity's Rainbow: Viking/Penguin (1973), Bantam (1974), and the special, repaginated Penguin paperback (2000) honoring the novel as one of twenty "Great Books of the Twentieth Century."
Author | : Umberto Rossi |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2015-09-04 |
Genre | : Psychological fiction, American |
ISBN | : 1443881511 |
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.
Author | : Sascha Pöhlmann |
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Release | : 2012 |
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Author | : Jeffrey Severs |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2011-02-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1611490650 |
Thomas Pynchon's longest novel to date, Against the Day (2006), excited diverse and energetic opinions when it appeared on bookstore shelves nine years after the critically acclaimed Mason & Dixon. Its wide-ranging plot covers nearly three decades-from the 1893 World's Fair to the years just after World War I-and follows hundreds of characters within its 1085 pages. Pynchon's Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide offers eleven essays by established luminaries and emerging voices in the field of Pynchon criticism, each addressing a significant aspect of the novel's manifold interests. By focusing on three major thematic trajectories (the novel's narrative strategies; its commentary on science, belief, and faith; and its views on politics and economics), the contributors contend that Against the Day is not only a major addition to Pynchon's already impressive body of work but also a defining moment in the emergence of twenty-first century American literature.