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Author:

Smith, Shawn, 1968 Oct. 8-

Title:

Pynchon and history : metahistorical rhetoric and postmodern narrative form in the novels of Thomas Pynchon / Shawn Smith.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

viii, 248 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Pynchon, Thomas--History.--History.
Pynchon, Thomas--Technique.
Historical fiction, American--History and criticism.
Narration (Rhetoric)--History--20th century.
Postmodernism (Literature)--United States.
Literature and history--United States.
Historiography--United States.
United States--In literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-239) and index.

Contents:

Pynchon and history: an overview -- Truth and falsity don't apply: V. and the historiographic method -- Gravity's Rainbow: wrecking the elegant rooms of history -- Simulated history: Vineland and postmodern America -- Westward the course of empire: Mason & Dixon and the rewriting of the American romance.

Series:

Studies in major literary authors

ISBN:

9780415975438 (alk. paper)
0415975433 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)60715234

LCCN:

2005017778

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)