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Ruins of Urban Modernity : Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day by Utku Mogultay (2019, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-101501360159
ISBN-139781501360152
eBay Product ID (ePID)3038379921
Product Key Features
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameRuins of Urban Modernity : Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day
SubjectModern / 20th Century, American / General, Semiotics & Theory, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year2019
TypeTextbook
AuthorUtku Mogultay
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight11.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsMogultay's book offers substantial insights into the "underrepresented subject" of urban setting in Pynchon scholarship ... and promises further investigation into Pynchon's urban imagination in terms of city structure., " The Ruins of Urban Modernity rises to the challenge presented by Pynchon's spatial imaginary, making a brilliant case for reading Against the Day as an urban novel offering vital insights into the contradictory geographies of modernity." -- Hsuan L. Hsu, Professor of English, University of California, Davis, USA "In the vast Pynchon scholarship, the city has remained an underrepresented subject. The Ruins of Urban Modernity gives Pynchon's treatment of urban spatiality the attention it deserves in a thorough book-length study of Against the Day . Utku Mogultay shows how in Pynchon's prose, a distinct ruin aesthetic gestures simultaneously toward complex layers of urban memory and toward unwritten future cities-including the ones we live in today." -- Lieven Ameel, Senior Research Fellow, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, Finland, and President of the Association for Literary Urban Studies, " The Ruins of Urban Modernity rises to the challenge presented by Pynchon's spatial imaginary, making a brilliant case for reading Against the Day as an urban novel offering vital insights into the contradictory geographies of modernity." -- Hsuan L. Hsu, Professor of English, University of California, Davis, USA "In the vast Pynchon scholarship, the city has remained an underrepresented subject. The Ruins of Urban Modernity gives Pynchon's treatment of urban spatiality the attention it deserves in a thorough book-length study of Against the Day . Utku Mogultay shows how in Pynchon's prose, a distinct ruin aesthetic gestures simultaneously toward complex layers of urban memory and toward unwritten future cities-including the ones we live in today." -- Lieven Ameel, Senior Research Fellow, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, Finland, and President of the Association for Literary Urban Studies "Utku Mogultay is a very learned critic who persuades us that Pynchon's Against the Day is not just zany and deliberately obscure." -- Modern Language Review, The Ruins of Urban Modernity rises to the challenge presented by Pynchon's spatial imaginary, making a brilliant case for reading Against the Day as an urban novel offering vital insights into the contradictory geographies of modernity., Utku Mogultay is a very learned critic who persuades us that Pynchon's Against the Day is not just zany and deliberately obscure., In the vast Pynchon scholarship, the city has remained an underrepresented subject. The Ruins of Urban Modernity gives Pynchon's treatment of urban spatiality the attention it deserves in a thorough book-length study of Against the Day . Utku Mogultay shows how in Pynchon's prose, a distinct ruin aesthetic gestures simultaneously toward complex layers of urban memory and toward unwritten future cities--including the ones we live in today.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal813.54
Table Of ContentList of Figures Acknowledgments Note on the Text Introduction 1. Explorations and Mappings 2. Learning from Venice 3. Movements and Machines 4. The White City 5. The Urban Frontier 6. The Unreal City 7. A Tale of Three Cities 8. The Doleful City Conclusion Bibliography Index
SynopsisThe Ruins of Urban Modernity examines Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day through the critical lens of urban spatiality. Navigating the textual landscapes of New York, Venice, London, Los Angeles and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Against the Day reimagines urban modernity at the turn of the 20th century. As the complex novel collapses and rebuilds anew the spatial imaginaries underlying the popular fictions of urban modernity, Utku Mogultay explores how such creative disfiguration throws light on the contemporary urban world. Through critical spatial readings, he considers how Pynchon historicizes issues ranging from the commodification of the urban landscape to the politics of place-making. In Mogultay's reading, Against the Day is shown to offer an oblique negotiation of postmodern urban spaces, thus directing our attention to the ongoing erosion of sociospatial diversity in North American cities and elsewhere.
LC Classification NumberPS3566.Y55
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