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Pynchon's Against the Day
A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide
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2011
Summary
Thomas Pynchon's longest novel to date, Against the Day (2006), excited diverse and energetic opinions when it appeared on bookstore shelves nine years after the critically acclaimed Mason & Dixon. Its wide-ranging plot covers nearly three decades-from the 1893 World's Fair to the years just after World War I-and follows hundreds of characters within its 1085 pages. Pynchon's Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide offers eleven essays by established luminaries and emerging voices in the field of Pynchon criticism, each addressing a significant aspect of the novel's manifold interests. By focusing on three major thematic trajectories (the novel's narrative strategies; its commentary on science, belief, and faith; and its views on politics and economics), the contributors contend that Against the Day is not only a major addition to Pynchon's already impressive body of work but also a defining moment in the emergence of twenty-first century American literature.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-61149-064-0
ISBN-Online
978-1-61149-065-7
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
294
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Acknowledgments No access
Notes on the Text No access
Introduction: “Exceeding the Usual Three Dimensions”: Collective Visions of the Unsuspected No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter 01: Genre as History: Pynchon’s Genre-Poaching No access
Chapter 02: Plots, Pilgrimage, and the Politics of Genre in Against the Day No access
Chapter 03: Mapping, the Unmappable, and Pynchon’s Antitragic Vision No access
Chapter 04: Binocular Disparity and Pynchon’s Panoramic Paradigm No access
Chapter 05: Bogomilism, Orphism, Shamanism: The Spiritual and Spatial Grounds of Pynchon’s Ecological Ethic No access
Chapter 06: Readers and Trespassers: Time Travel, Orthogonal Time, and Alternative Figurations of Time in Against the Day No access
Chapter 07: Narrating Tesla in Against the Day No access
Chapter 08: The Religious and Political Vision of Against the Day No access
Chapter 09: Daydreams and Dynamite: Anarchist Strategies of Resistance and Paths for Transformation in Against the Day No access
Chapter 10: “The abstractions she was instructed to embody”: Women, Capitalism, and Artistic Representation in Against the Day No access
Chapter 11: Europe’s “Eastern Question” and the United States’ “Western Question”: Representing Ethnic Wars in Against the Day No access
