The New Pynchon Studies

Joanna Freer

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781108474467
• eBook ISBN: 9781108679060
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Note on the Texts
• Notes on Contributors
• Chapter 1 Introduction: Pynchon Studies in the Twenty-First Century
• Part 1 Theory
• Part 2 Politics
• Part 3 Analysis
• Bibliography
• Index