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The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

ISBN: 9780521173049 | 0521173043
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 1/16/2012

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SummaryTable of Contents
Comprehensive, accessible and up-to-date, this book approaches the challenging fiction of the American postmodern master Thomas Pynchon from many different angles. Designed for students, scholars and fans alike, it covers the elusive author's biography and all seven of his novels, surveying topics such as history, politics and science and technology.

This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.

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Notes on contributorsp. vii
Chronology of Pynchon's life and worksp. x
Introductionp. 1
Biographical notep. 9
Canon
Early Pynchonp. 19
The Crying of hot 49 and other California novelsp. 30
Gravity's Rainbowp. 44
Mason & Dixonp. 59
Against the Dayp. 71
Poetics
Pynchon in literary historyp. 83
Pynchon's postmodernismp. 97
Pynchon's intertextsp. 112
Issues
Historyp. 123
Politicsp. 136
Alterityp. 146
Science and technologyp. 156
Coda: How to read Pynchonp. 168
Selected bibliographyp. 178
Indexp. 187
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