| Description |
1 online resource (379 pages). |
| Series |
Dialogue ; 8 |
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Dialogue (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 8.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: The Complex Text; Setting Sail Against the Day: The Narrative World of Thomas Pynchon; Against the Master: Pynchon's Wellsian Art; Travels in the Fourth Dimension in Against the Day; "Perchance to Dream": Clock Time and Creative Resistance Against the Day; "When You Come to a Fork in the Road"Marcuse, Intellectual Subversion and Negative Thought in Gravity's Rainbow and Against the Day; Imperfect Circles: Asymmetrical Orbital Motion from the Rim to the Centre in Gravity's Rainbow. |
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Still Moving Against the Day: Pynchon's Graphic ImpulseAs Far as Pynchon "Loves Cameras"; A Medium No Longer: How Communication and Information Become Objectives in Thomas Pynchon's Works; "It's My Job, I Can't Back Out": The "House" and Coercive Property Relations in Thomas Pynchon's Vineland; The Tao of Thomas Pynchon; "The Real and Only Fucking is Done on Paper": Penetrative Readings and Pynchon's Sexual Text; Fluid Destiny: Memory and Signs in Thomas. |
| Summary |
Against the Grain: Reading Pynchon's Counternarratives is the first book that critically addresses Thomas Pynchon's novel Against the Day, published in 2006. The nineteen essays collected in this volume employ a large variety of approaches t. |
| Subject |
Pynchon, Thomas -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Pynchon, Thomas. (OCoLC)fst00041846
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Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Postmodernism (Literature) (OCoLC)fst01073181
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Pöhlmann, Sascha.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Against the grain. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, ©2010 9789042030725 (OCoLC)667271358 |
| Standard No. |
9786612792885 |
| ISBN |
9789042030732 (electronic bk.) |
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9042030739 (electronic bk.) |
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