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  • Chapter 21 - Politics and Counterculture
  • from Part II - Culture, Politics, and Society
  • Edited by Inger H. Dalsgaard, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
  • Book: Thomas Pynchon in Context
  • Published online: 31 May 2019
  • Print publication: 20 June 2019, pp 172-179
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    Summary

    Thomas Pynchon’s fiction, and in particular his 1973 masterpiece Gravity’s Rainbow, is considered by many critics to define the literary postmodern. In Postmodernist Fiction (1987), for instance, Brian McHale describes Gravity’s Rainbow as “one of the paradigmatic texts of postmodernist writing,” and in his later book, Constructing Postmodernism (1992), he dedicates one of four parts of his discussion to Pynchon’s work. Fredric Jameson, probably the most influential theorist of the postmodern as a broad, cultural phenomenon, also names Pynchon – alongside William Burroughs and Ishmael Reed – as one of the main avatars of the postmodern in literature.

The New Pynchon Studies
  • The New Pynchon Studies
  • Edited by Joanna Freer
  • Published online: 09 May 2019
  • Print publication: 09 May 2019
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    This book captures a cross-section of the most significant recent developments in criticism on one of the most challenging authors of our time. It brings together essays by a new generation of Pynchon critics alongside some more established names in the field, building on and moving beyond existing critical paradigms in the study of Pynchon's work. In a critical landscape in which the postmodernism of Pynchon's earlier novels has been thoroughly established, this collection presents fresh analytical methodologies and new perspectives on Pynchon's fiction informed by the more expansive, globalized, and politicized network models that undergird recent advances in American literary theory and criticism. The New Pynchon Studies illustrates how Pynchon's later novels, Against the Day, Inherent Vice, and Bleeding Edge, demand a re-orientation of our approach to his entire oeuvre and enables readers to trace lines of continuity and development in his writing from V. to the present day.

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