The New Pynchon studies

by Freer, Joanna

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Title Statements

Full title :The New Pynchon studies / edited by Joanna Freer, University of Exeter.

Summary

"The twenty-first century has been a time of renewed energy within Pynchon studies. Among other factors this is due to the publication of three novels, Against the Day (2006), Inherent Vice (2009), and Bleeding Edge (2013), which have each brought something distinctively new to the table. Against the Day's vast scope and range makes it Pynchon's most fully realized example of what has come to be conceived of as the "systems novel"; Inherent Vice's revisiting of the counterculture era first examined by Pynchon in The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) offers a concrete point of comparison on which to base assessments of his maturation as a writer amid changing socio-political contexts, and Bleeding Edge, Pynchon's (quasi-)9/11 novel, provides a thorough and long-anticipated thematic engagement with computer technology and digital culture. Mason & Dixon, published a little before the turn of the millennium in 1997 and one of Pynchon's most critically-acclaimed works, has also provided fertile ground for twenty-first century criticism"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

Notes

"Volume 1".

Formerly CIP.

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 262 pages : illustrations : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781108474467, 1108474462
oclc:on1103848183
LC Classification:PS3566.Y55
Dewey Decimal:813.54

Introduction: Pynchon studies in the twenty-first century / Joanna Freer -- Theory. Pynchon and post-postmodernism / Sascha Pohlmann -- Pynchon after paranoia / Ali Chetwynd -- Pynchon and new materialism / Martin Paul Eve -- Pynchon's posthuman temporalities / Pieter Vermeulen -- Politics. Pynchon, gender, and relational ethics / Joanna Freer -- "You are here": the postrace aesthetics of Pynchon's Against the day / Sue J. Kim -- Another apocalypse: digital ecologies and late Pynchon / Christopher K. Coffman -- Pynchon and new political activisms / Michael O'Bryan -- Threat and crisis in twenty-first century Pynchon / Hanjo Berressem -- Analysis. Digital readings / Katie Muth -- Reading Pynchon in and on the digital age / Luc Herman -- Pynchon on film / Ralph Clare -- Pynchon's twenty-first century paratexts / Tore Rye Andersen.