The Resource Thomas Pynchon & the dark passages of history, David Cowart
Thomas Pynchon & the dark passages of history, David Cowart
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The item Thomas Pynchon & the dark passages of history, David Cowart represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries.
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- Summary
- "Thomas Pynchon helped pioneer the postmodern aesthetic. His formidable body of work challenges readers to think and perceive in ways that anticipate - with humor, insight, and cogency - much that has emerged in the field of literary theory over the past few decades. For David Cowart, Pynchon's most profound teachings are about history - history as myth, as rhetorical construct, as false consciousness, as prologue, as mirror, and as seedbed of national and literary identities. In one encyclopedic novel after another, Pynchon has reconceptualized historical periods that he sees as culturally definitive. Examining Pynchon's entire body of work, Cowart offers an engaging, metahistorical reading of V.; an exhaustive analysis of the influence of German culture in Pynchon's early work, with particular emphasis on Gravity's Rainbow; and a critical spectroscopy of those dark stars, Mason & Dixon and Against the Day. He defends the California fictions The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland, and Inherent Vice as roman fleuve chronicling the decade in which the American tapestry began to unravel. Cowart ends his study by considering Pynchon's place in literary history. Cowart argues that Pynchon has always understood the facticity of historical narrative and the historicity of storytelling - not to mention the relations of both story and history to myth. Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History offers a deft analysis of the problems of history as engaged by our greatest living novelist and argues for the continuity of Pynchon's historical vision."--Project Muse
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xix, 250 pages)
- Contents
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- Introduction: Calibrating Clio
- Prospero's apprenticeship: slow learner
- History and myth: Pynchon's V
- Streben nach dem unendlichen: Germany and German culture in Pynchon's early work
- Pynchon and the sixties: the California novels
- The luddite vision: Mason & Dixon
- Pynchon, genealogy, history: Against the day
- The historiographer historicized: Pynchon and literary history
- Isbn
- 9780820337098
- Label
- Thomas Pynchon & the dark passages of history
- Title
- Thomas Pynchon & the dark passages of history
- Statement of responsibility
- David Cowart
- Title variation
- Thomas Pynchon and the dark passages of history
- Subject
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- American / General
- American / General
- American Literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- English
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory
- Languages & Literatures
- Pynchon, Thomas
- Pynchon, Thomas -- Criticism and interpretation
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Thomas Pynchon helped pioneer the postmodern aesthetic. His formidable body of work challenges readers to think and perceive in ways that anticipate - with humor, insight, and cogency - much that has emerged in the field of literary theory over the past few decades. For David Cowart, Pynchon's most profound teachings are about history - history as myth, as rhetorical construct, as false consciousness, as prologue, as mirror, and as seedbed of national and literary identities. In one encyclopedic novel after another, Pynchon has reconceptualized historical periods that he sees as culturally definitive. Examining Pynchon's entire body of work, Cowart offers an engaging, metahistorical reading of V.; an exhaustive analysis of the influence of German culture in Pynchon's early work, with particular emphasis on Gravity's Rainbow; and a critical spectroscopy of those dark stars, Mason & Dixon and Against the Day. He defends the California fictions The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland, and Inherent Vice as roman fleuve chronicling the decade in which the American tapestry began to unravel. Cowart ends his study by considering Pynchon's place in literary history. Cowart argues that Pynchon has always understood the facticity of historical narrative and the historicity of storytelling - not to mention the relations of both story and history to myth. Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History offers a deft analysis of the problems of history as engaged by our greatest living novelist and argues for the continuity of Pynchon's historical vision."--Project Muse
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1947-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Cowart, David
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS3566.Y55
- LC item number
- Z59 2011eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Pynchon, Thomas
- Pynchon, Thomas
- American / General
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- American / General
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- English
- American Literature
- Languages & Literatures
- Label
- Thomas Pynchon & the dark passages of history, David Cowart
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Calibrating Clio -- Prospero's apprenticeship: slow learner -- History and myth: Pynchon's V -- Streben nach dem unendlichen: Germany and German culture in Pynchon's early work -- Pynchon and the sixties: the California novels -- The luddite vision: Mason & Dixon -- Pynchon, genealogy, history: Against the day -- The historiographer historicized: Pynchon and literary history
- Control code
- 775075464
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xix, 250 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780820337098
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other control number
- 9786613432025
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- 343202
- 22573/ctt3q3nkw
- 5f4c8407-09e9-49a5-894d-6be49578138c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)775075464
- Label
- Thomas Pynchon & the dark passages of history, David Cowart
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction: Calibrating Clio -- Prospero's apprenticeship: slow learner -- History and myth: Pynchon's V -- Streben nach dem unendlichen: Germany and German culture in Pynchon's early work -- Pynchon and the sixties: the California novels -- The luddite vision: Mason & Dixon -- Pynchon, genealogy, history: Against the day -- The historiographer historicized: Pynchon and literary history
- Control code
- 775075464
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xix, 250 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780820337098
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 9786613432025
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 343202
- 22573/ctt3q3nkw
- 5f4c8407-09e9-49a5-894d-6be49578138c
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)775075464
Subject
- American / General
- American / General
- American Literature
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- English
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American | General
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory
- Languages & Literatures
- Pynchon, Thomas
- Pynchon, Thomas -- Criticism and interpretation
- LITERARY CRITICISM
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