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Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender by Simon Cook (2018, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Georgia Press
ISBN-100820354015
ISBN-139780820354019
eBay Product ID (ePID)10038713060
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameThomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender
Publication Year2018
SubjectGender Studies, American / General, Subjects & Themes / General
TypeTextbook
AuthorSimon Cook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight15.4 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2018-008680
ReviewsThomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender . . . establish[es] that sex and gender are both crucial elements of his literary undertaking and inseparable from its ethical and political repercussions. . . . The overall scope of the collection is impressive, encompassing Pynchon's oeuvre in its entirety while detailing the significance of the ways in which he handles such topics as child abuse, family values, motherhood, and sex work., Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender delivers on the promise to examine this gaping hole in Pynchon studies [and] offers an exhaustive answer to the representation of sex and gender in Pynchon's fiction... The wide-ranging foray into academic discourses and cultural contexts never loses sight of the text... creating new inroads into Pynchon's work., Rarely does one read through an entire collection of essays, let alone find them all gripping. This collection is that and more.
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal813.54
SynopsisThomas Pynchon's fiction has been considered masculinist, misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem. To the present day, deep critical divisions persist as to whether Pynchon's representations of women are sexist, feminist, or reflective of a more general misanthropy, whether his writing of sex is boorishly pornographic or effectually transgressive, whether queer identities are celebrated or mocked, and whether his departures from realist convention express masculinist elitism or critique the gendering of genre. Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender reframes these debates. As the first book-length investigation of Pynchon's writing to put the topics of sex and gender at its core, it moves beyond binary debates about whether to see Pynchon as liberatory or conservative, instead examining how his preoccupation with sex and gender conditions his fiction's whole worldview. The essays it contains, which cumulatively address all of Pynchon's novels from V. (1963) to Bleeding Edge (2013), investigate such topics as the imbrication of gender and power, sexual abuse and the writing of sex, the gendering of violence, and the shifting representation of the family. Providing a wealth of new approaches to the centrality of sex and gender in Pynchon's work, the collection opens up new avenues for Pynchon studies as a whole., As the first book-length investigation of Thomas Pynchon's writing to put the topics of sex and gender at its core, this book moves beyond binary debates about whether to see Pynchon as liberatory or conservative, instead examining how his preoccupation with sex and gender conditions his fiction's whole worldview.
LC Classification NumberPS3566.Y55Z946 2018
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