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Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2013.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource.
SERIES
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Contemporary American and Canadian writers
CONTENTS NOTE
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Cover; Thomas Pynchon; Series editors' foreword ; Abbreviations ; Introduction: 'the fork in the road'; 1 Refuge and refuse in Slow Learner; 2 Convoluted reading: identity, interpretation and reference in The Crying of Lot 49; 3 Disappearing points: V.; 4 'A progressive knotting into': power, presentation and history in Gravity's Rainbow; 5 Cultural nostalgia and political possibility in Vineland; 6 Mason & Dixon and the transnational vortices of historical fiction; 7 'I believe in incursion from elsewhere': political and aesthetic disruption in Against the Day.
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Conclusion: Inherent Vice as Pynchon Lite?Works cited; Index.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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A comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature, Thomas Pynchon.