Pynchon and history : metahistorical rhetoric and postmodern narrative form in the novels of Thomas Pynchon

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Pynchon and history : metahistorical rhetoric and postmodern narrative form in the novels of Thomas Pynchon

Title:

Pynchon and history : metahistorical rhetoric and postmodern narrative form in the novels of Thomas Pynchon

Author:

Smith, Shawn, 1968 October 8-

ISBN:

9780203959329

Personal Author:

Smith, Shawn, 1968 October 8-

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages).

Series:

Studies in major literary authors

Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered)

Contents:

Pynchon and history: an overview -- Truth and falsity don't apply: V. and the historiographic method -- Gravity's Rainbow: wrecking the elegant rooms of history -- Simulated history: Vineland and postmodern America -- Westward the course of empire: Mason & Dixon and the rewriting of the American romance.

Local Note:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Personal Subject:

Pynchon, Thomas-Knowledge-History.

Pynchon, Thomas-Technique.

Subject Term:

Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism.

Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.

Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.

Literature and history -- United States.

Historiography -- United States.

Geographic Term: