Against the grain : reading Pynchon's counternarratives /

Against the grain : reading Pynchon's counternarratives / / edited by Sascha Pöhlmann.

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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 to this massive novel and also take it as an opportunity to...

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Superior document:Dialogue ; 8
TeilnehmendeR:
Pöhlmann, Sascha.
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Dialogue (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 8.
Physical Description:1 online resource (373 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • The Complex Text / Sascha Pöhlmann
  • Setting Sail Against the Day: The Narrative World of Thomas Pynchon / Heinz Ickstadt
  • Against the Master: Pynchon’s Wellsian Art / Keith O’Neill
  • Travels in the Fourth Dimension in Against the Day / Simon de Bourcier
  • “Perchance to Dream”: Clock Time and Creative Resistance Against the Day / Inger H. Dalsgaard
  • “When You Come to a Fork in the Road”—Marcuse, Intellectual Subversion and Negative Thought in Gravity’s Rainbow and Against the Day / Toon Staes
  • Imperfect Circles: Asymmetrical Orbital Motion from the Rim to the Centre in Gravity’s Rainbow / Ali Chetwynd
  • Still Moving Against the Day: Pynchon’s Graphic Impulse / Rodney Taveira
  • As Far as Pynchon “Loves Cameras” / Clément Lévy
  • A Medium No Longer: How Communication and Information Become Objectives in Thomas Pynchon’s Works / Georgios Maragos
  • “It’s My Job, I Can’t Back Out”: The “House” and Coercive Property Relations in Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland / William D. Clarke
  • The Tao of Thomas Pynchon / Michael Harris
  • “The Real and Only Fucking is Done on Paper”: Penetrative Readings and Pynchon’s Sexual Text / Jessica Lawson
  • Fluid Destiny: Memory and Signs in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 / Manlio Della Marca
  • The Underworld and Its Forces: Croatia, the Uskoks and Their Fight for Autonomy in Against the Day / Lovorka Gruić Grmuša
  • Kit and Kim: Espionage in Against the Day / Celia Wallhead
  • “Particle or Wave?”: The “Function” of the Prairie in Against the Day / Leyla Haferkamp
  • From Science to Terrorism: The Transgressing Function of Energy in Pynchon’s Against the Day / Francisco Collado-Rodríguez
  • “Vectors and [Eigen]Values”: The Mathematics of Movement in Against the Day / Hanjo Berressem
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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