Pynchon and the Political
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studies in Major Literary Authors
ISBN-10
0415956463
ISBN-13
9780415956468
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 14th, 2007
Print length
214 Pages
Weight
560 grams
Product Classification:
Literature: history & criticism
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Thomas Pynchon's writing of postmodern fiction has been characterized as genre-defying and enigmatic, and 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 post modernity.
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.
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