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Pynchon's Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide

Pynchon's Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide

Severs, Jeffrey
Leise, Christopher
Benton, Graham

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1611490642
ISBN13: 9781611490640
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: Feb 24 2011
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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. The book's eleven essays by established luminaries and emerging voices in the field of Pynchon criticism, address 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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