Pynchon's Against the Day : A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide.
Title:
Pynchon's Against the Day : A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide.
Author:
Severs, Jeffrey.
ISBN:
9781611490657
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (233 pages)
Contents:
Pynchon's Against the Day -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Text -- Introduction: "Exceeding the Usual Three Dimensions": Collective Visions of the Unsuspected -- Part I: NARRATIVE STRATEGIES -- Chapter 01: Genre as History: Pynchon's Genre-Poaching -- Chapter 02: Plots, Pilgrimage, and the Politics of Genre in Against the Day -- Chapter 03: Mapping, the Unmappable, and Pynchon's Antitragic Vision -- Chapter 04: Binocular Disparity and Pynchon's Panoramic Paradigm -- Part II: SCIENCE, BELIEF, AND FAITH -- Chapter 05: Bogomilism, Orphism, Shamanism: The Spiritual and Spatial Grounds of Pynchon's Ecological Ethic -- Chapter 06: Readers and Trespassers: Time Travel, Orthogonal Time, and Alternative Figurations of Time in Against the Day -- Chapter 07: Narrating Tesla in Against the Day -- Part III: POLITICS AND ECONOMICS -- Chapter 08: The Religious and Political Vision of Against the Day -- Chapter 09: Daydreams and Dynamite: Anarchist Strategies of Resistance and Paths for Transformation in Against the Day -- Chapter 10: "The abstractions she was instructed to embody": Women, Capitalism, and Artistic Representation in Against the Day -- Chapter 11: Europe's "Eastern Question" and the United States' "Western Question": Representing Ethnic Wars in Against the Day -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Editors -- About the Contributors.
Abstract:
The first book of criticism devoted to Pynschon's massive 2006 novel, Pynchon's Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide gathers new work by more than a dozen scholars, offering readings informed by the newest developments in narratology, genre studies, ecocriticism, globalism, and the histories of science and religion. This title also offers fresh perspectives on divisive issues within Pynchon studies, such as anarchism, gender, and reviewers' reception of his recent work. What emerges is a novel that will come to be seen, these essays argue, as a major part of Pynchon's storied legacy and a key work of the "late Pynchon.".
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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