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Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Ser.: Thomas Pynchon and the American Counterculture by Joanna Freer (2016, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101107429714
ISBN-139781107429710
eBay Product ID (ePID)203461093
Product Key Features
Number of Pages220 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameThomas Pynchon and the American Counterculture
Publication Year2016
SubjectSociology / General, American / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science
AuthorJoanna Freer
SeriesCambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight11.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2014-014937
Dewey Edition23
Series Volume NumberSeries Number 170
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Table Of Content1. On the road to anti-structure: V., The Crying Lot 49 and the Beats; 2. Love, violence and yippie subversion in Gravity's Rainbow: Pynchon and the New Left; 3. The psychedelic movement, fantasy and anarchism in The Crying Lot 49 and Against the Day; 4. The Black Panther Party, revolutionary suicide and Gravity's Rainbow; 5. Feminism moderate and radical in The Crying Lot 49 and Vineland: Pynchon and the women's movement.
SynopsisThomas Pynchon and American Counterculture examines Pynchon's novels in their relation to 1960s counterculture. Much has been made of Pynchon's ambiguity, but in this volume, Joanna Freer offers a concrete account of Pynchon's politics, thereby emphasising commentaries within Pynchon's fiction on the Beats, the New Left, the Black Panther Party, the psychedelic movement and the women's movement., Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture employs the revolutionary sixties as a lens through which to view the anarchist politics of Pynchon's novels. Joanna Freer identifies and elucidates Pynchon's commentaries on such groups as the Beats, the New Left and the Black Panther Party and on such movements as the psychedelic movement and the women's movement, drawing out points of critique to build a picture of a complex countercultural sensibility at work in Pynchon's fiction. In emphasising the subtleties of Pynchon's responses to counterculture, Freer clarifies his importance as an intellectually rigorous political philosopher. She further suggests that, like the graffiti in Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon creates texts that are 'revealed in order to be thought about, expanded on, translated into action by the people', his early attraction to core countercultural values growing into a conscious, politically motivated writing project that reaches its most mature expression in Against the Day., Thomas Pynchon and the American Counterculture employs the revolutionary sixties as a lens through which to view the anarchist politics of Pynchon's novels. Joanna Freer identifies and elucidates Pynchon's commentaries on such groups as the Beats, the New Left and the Black Panther Party and on such movements as the psychedelic movement and the women's movement, drawing out points of critique to build a picture of a complex countercultural sensibility at work in Pynchon's fiction. In emphasising the subtleties of Pynchon's responses to counterculture, Freer clarifies his importance as an intellectually rigorous political philosopher. She further suggests that, like the graffiti in Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon creates texts that are 'revealed in order to be thought about, expanded on, translated into action by the people', his early attraction to core countercultural values growing into a conscious, politically motivated writing project that reaches its most mature expression in Against the Day.
LC Classification NumberPS3566.Y55Z653 2014
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