Tag: Pynchon

Free Download Phillip Grayson, "Radical Hope in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon: The Moon and Meteor"
English | ISBN: 1666911682 | 2022 | 142 pages | EPUB, PDF | 320 KB + 1181 KB

Free Download Keita Hatooka, "Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales: Fables for Ecocriticism "
English | ISBN: 1793655871 | 2022 | 166 pages | EPUB, PDF | 359 KB + 2 MB
Throughout his works, Thomas Pynchon uses various animal characters to narrate fables that are vital to postmodernism and ecocriticism. Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales: Fables for Ecocriticism examines case studies of animal representation in Pynchon’s texts, such as alligators in the sewer in V.; the alligator purse in Bleeding Edge; dolphins in the Miami Seaquarium in The Crying of Lot 49; dodoes, pigs, and octopuses in Gravity’s Rainbow; Bigfoot and Godzilla in Vineland and Inherent Vice; and preternatural dogs and mythical worms in Mason & Dixon and Against the Day. Through this exploration, Keita Hatooka illuminates how radically and imaginatively the legendary novelist depicts his empathy for nonhuman beings. Furthermore, by conducting a comparative study of Pynchon’s narratives and his contemporary documentarians and thinkers, Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales leads readers to draw great lessons from the fables, which stimulate our ecocritical thought for tomorrow.

Free Download Samir Sellami, "Hyperbolic Realism: A Wild Reading of Pynchon’s and Bolaño’s Late Maximalist Fiction"
English | ISBN: 1501360493 | 2024 | 248 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1105 KB + 3 MB
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Free Download Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009377574 | 243 Pages | PDF | 1.3 MB
While Thomas Pynchon is usually described as an American author who primarily writes about American reality, Planetary Pynchon: History, Modernity, and the Anthropocene argues that his major novels, Gravity’s Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, and Against the Day, can profitably be read as a global trilogy that presents a coherent historical account of how the emergence and spread of European modernity across the world have had devastating consequences for the planet and its inhabitants. This book sets a new agenda in Pynchon studies, charting his early anticipation of anthropocenic and planetary ideas, including globalization’s demand for constant growth. It combines close textual readings with broad perspectives on large thematic arcs and stylistic developments across Pynchon’s entire career as well as an extensive dialogue with the rich reception of his work.