Pynchon and the Political
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Studies in Major Literary Authors
ISBN-10
0415809142
ISBN-13
9780415809146
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 15th, 2011
Print length
214 Pages
Weight
400 grams
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Thomas Pynchon''s writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form of postmodern fiction. It is characterized as genre-defying and enigmatic, as a series of complex and esoteric language games. This study attempts to demonstrate, however, that an oblique yet compelling sense of the "political" Pynchon disappers all too easily under the mantle of postmodernity. Innovative and unsettling discussions of freedom, war, labor, poverty, community, democracy, and totalitarianism are passed over in favor of constrictive scientific metaphors and theoretical play. Against this current, this study analyzes Pynchon''s fiction in terms of its radical dimension, showing how it points to new directions in the relationship between the political and the aesthetic.
Thomas Pynchon''s writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form of postmodern fiction. It is characterized as genre-defying and enigmatic, as a series of complex and esoteric language games. This study attempts to demonstrate, however, that an oblique yet compelling sense of the "political" Pynchon disappears all too easily under the mantle of postmodernity. Innovative and unsettling discussions of freedom, war, labour, poverty, community, democracy, and totalitarianism are passed over in favour of constrictive scientific metaphors and theoretical play. Against this current, this study analyses Pynchon''s fiction in terms of its radical dimension, showing how it points to new directions in the relationship between the political and the aesthetic.
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