1st Edition

Pynchon and History Metahistorical Rhetoric and Postmodern Narrative Form in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon

By Shawn Smith Copyright 2005
260 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 2005. While many previous books on Pynchon allude to his fictional engagement with historical events and figures, this book explores Pynchon as a historical novelist and, by extension, historical thinker. The book interprets Pynchon's four major novels V., Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland, and Mason & Dixon through the prism of historical interpretation and representation. In doing... Read more
INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Conclusion;

Biography

Shawn Smith