Thomas Pynchon

Simon Malpas, Andrew Taylor, Sharon Monteith , Nahem Yousaf

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Manchester University Press
01 August 2015

Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Series: Contemporary American and Canadian Writers

Now available in paperback, this is a comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature. Over a writing career spanning more than fifty years, Thomas Pynchon has been at the forefront of America's engagement with postmodern literary possibilities. In chapters that address the full range of Pynchon's career, from his earliest short stories and first novel, V., to his most recent work, this book offers highly accessible and detailed readings of a writer whose work is indispensable to understanding how the American novel has met the challenges of postmodernity. The authors discuss Pynchon's relationship to literary history, his engagement with discourses of science and utopianism, his interrogation of imperialism and his preoccupation with the paranoid sensibility. Invaluable to Pynchon scholars and to everyone working in the field of contemporary American fiction, this study explores how Pynchon's complex narratives work both as exuberant examples of formal experimentation and as serious interventions in the political health of the nation. -- .

By: Simon Malpas, Andrew Taylor
Series edited by: Sharon Monteith, Nahem Yousaf
Other: Rebecca Mortimer
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 299g
ISBN: 9780719099342
ISBN 10: 071909934X
Series: Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 August 2015
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Andrew Taylor and Simon Malpas are Senior Lecturers in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh

Reviews for Thomas Pynchon

Malpas and Taylor are indeed stimulating. Their study provides a clear, lucid discussion of several key themes in Pynchon's novels, chief amongst which are paranoia, the emancipatory power of fantasy and alternative modes of perception, and the 'subjunctive potentiality' of spaces of resistance. Malpas and Taylor's analysis is always illuminating, and their analysis of space in particular ensures that their book is a significant contribution to the diffuse field of Pynchon scholarship., George Twigg, Orbit, 2 March 2015 -- .