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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date: March 2012
Print publication year: 2011
Online ISBN: 9781139019866
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL9780521769747
Collection: Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
Subjects: Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies,
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The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable
figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his
readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge.
Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches
Pynchon's fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an
international roster of scholars at the cutting edge of Pynchon studies. Part I
covers Pynchon's fiction novel-by-novel from the 1960s to the present, including
such indisputable classics as The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow. Part
II zooms out to give a bird's-eye-view of Pynchon's novelistic practice across
his entire career. Part III surveys major topics of Pynchon's fiction: history,
politics, alterity ('otherness') and science and technology. Designed for
students, scholars and fans alike, the Companion begins with a biography of the
elusive author and ends with a coda on how to read Pynchon and a bibliography
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