| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 293 p.) |
| Contents |
Part I: Narrative Strategies -- 1. Genre as History: Pynchon's Genre-Poaching / Brian McHale -- 2. Plots, Pilgrimage, and the Politics of Genre in Against the Day / Amy J. Elias -- 3. Mapping, the Unmappable, and Pynchon's Antitragic Vision / Krysztof Piekarski, Martin Kevorkian, and Elisabeth McKetta -- 4. Binocular Disparity and Pynchon's Panoramic Paradigm / Justin St. Clair -- Part II: Science, Belief, and Faith -- 5. Bogomilism, Orphism, Shamanism: The Spiritual and Spatial Grounds of Pynchon's Ecological Ethic / Christopher K. Coffman -- 6. Readers and Trespassers: Time Travel, Orthogonal Time, and Alternative Figurations of Time in Against the Day / Inger H. Dalsgaard -- 7. Narrating Tesla in Against the Day / Terry Reilly -- Part III: Politics and Economics -- 8. The Religious and Political Vision of Against the Day / Kathryn Hume -- 8. Daydreams and Dynamite: Anarchist Strategies of Resistance and Paths for Transformation in Against the Day / Graham Benton -- 10. "The abstractions she was instructed to embody": Women, Capitalism, and Artisitic Representation in Against the Day / Jeffrey Severs -- 11. Europe's "Easterm Question" and the United States' "Western Question": Representing Ethnic Wars in Against the Day / J. Paul Narkunas |
| Summary |
Thomas Pynchon's longest novel to date, Against the Day (2006), excited diverse but energetic opinions when it appeared on bookstore shelves nine years after the critically acclaimed Mason & Dixon. Its wide-ranging plot covers more than a decade -- from the 1893 World's Fair to the years just after World War I -- and follows hundreds of characters within its 1085 pages. Pynchon's Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide offers eleven essays by established luminaries and emerging voices in the field of Pynchon criticism, each addressing a significant aspect of the novel's manifold concerns |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Pynchon, Thomas. Against the day
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Severs, Jeffrey, 1974- editor.
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Leise, Christopher, 1978- editor.
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| LC no. |
2021680582 |
| ISBN |
9781611490657 |
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1611490650 |
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1283014416 |
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9781283014410 |
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9786613014412 |
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6613014419 |
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