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Against the Grain
Reading Pynchonâs Counternarratives
Series: - Dialogue, Volume: 8
- Dialogue Online, Volume: 8
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Against the Grain: Reading Pynchonâs Counternarratives is the first book that critically addresses Thomas Pynchonâs novel Against the Day, published in 2006. The nineteen essays collected in this volume employ a large variety of approaches to this massive novel and also take it as an opportunity to reevaluate Pynchonâs earlier works, analyzing Against the Day in relation to V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravityâs Rainbow, Vineland, Mason & Dixon, and Pynchonâs short stories and essays. The authorsâyounger as well as established scholars from eleven countriesâaddress these works with regard to issues of modernism and postmodernism, politics, popular culture, concepts of space and time, visuality, sexuality, identity, media and communication, philosophy, religion, American and global (literary) history, physics, mathematics, economics, and many more. Their insights are as profound as they are diverse, and all provide fresh views on Pynchonâs fiction that will be useful, fascinating and entertaining for researchers and fans alike.
Sascha Pöhlmann: Introduction: The Complex Text
Heinz Ickstadt: Setting Sail Against the Day: The Narrative World of Thomas Pynchon
Keith OâNeill: Against the Master: Pynchonâs Wellsian Art
Simon de Bourcier: Travels in the Fourth Dimension in Against the Day
Inger H. Dalsgaard: âPerchance to Dreamâ: Clock Time and Creative Resistance Against the Day
Toon Staes: âWhen You Come to a Fork in the RoadââMarcuse, Intellectual Subversion and Negative Thought in Gravityâs Rainbow and Against the Day
Ali Chetwynd: Imperfect Circles: Asymmetrical Orbital Motion from the Rim to the Centre in Gravityâs Rainbow
Rodney Taveira: Still Moving Against the Day: Pynchonâs Graphic Impulse
Clément Lévy: As Far as Pynchon âLoves Camerasâ
Georgios Maragos: A Medium No Longer: How Communication and Information Become Objectives in Thomas Pynchonâs Works
William D. Clarke: âItâs My Job, I Canât Back Outâ: The âHouseâ and Coercive Property Relations in Thomas Pynchonâs Vineland
Michael Harris: The Tao of Thomas Pynchon
Jessica Lawson: âThe Real and Only Fucking is Done on Paperâ: Penetrative Readings and Pynchonâs Sexual Text
Manlio Della Marca: Fluid Destiny: Memory and Signs in Thomas Pynchonâs The Crying of Lot 49
Lovorka GruiÄ GrmuÅ¡a: The Underworld and Its Forces: Croatia, the Uskoks and Their Fight for Autonomy in Against the Day
Celia Wallhead: Kit and Kim: Espionage in Against the Day
Leyla Haferkamp: âParticle or Wave?â: The âFunctionâ of the Prairie in Against the Day
Francisco Collado-RodrÃguez: From Science to Terrorism: The Transgressing Function of Energy in Pynchonâs Against the Day
Hanjo Berressem: âVectors and [Eigen]Valuesâ: The Mathematics of Movement in Against the Day
Contributors
Index
Heinz Ickstadt: Setting Sail Against the Day: The Narrative World of Thomas Pynchon
Keith OâNeill: Against the Master: Pynchonâs Wellsian Art
Simon de Bourcier: Travels in the Fourth Dimension in Against the Day
Inger H. Dalsgaard: âPerchance to Dreamâ: Clock Time and Creative Resistance Against the Day
Toon Staes: âWhen You Come to a Fork in the RoadââMarcuse, Intellectual Subversion and Negative Thought in Gravityâs Rainbow and Against the Day
Ali Chetwynd: Imperfect Circles: Asymmetrical Orbital Motion from the Rim to the Centre in Gravityâs Rainbow
Rodney Taveira: Still Moving Against the Day: Pynchonâs Graphic Impulse
Clément Lévy: As Far as Pynchon âLoves Camerasâ
Georgios Maragos: A Medium No Longer: How Communication and Information Become Objectives in Thomas Pynchonâs Works
William D. Clarke: âItâs My Job, I Canât Back Outâ: The âHouseâ and Coercive Property Relations in Thomas Pynchonâs Vineland
Michael Harris: The Tao of Thomas Pynchon
Jessica Lawson: âThe Real and Only Fucking is Done on Paperâ: Penetrative Readings and Pynchonâs Sexual Text
Manlio Della Marca: Fluid Destiny: Memory and Signs in Thomas Pynchonâs The Crying of Lot 49
Lovorka GruiÄ GrmuÅ¡a: The Underworld and Its Forces: Croatia, the Uskoks and Their Fight for Autonomy in Against the Day
Celia Wallhead: Kit and Kim: Espionage in Against the Day
Leyla Haferkamp: âParticle or Wave?â: The âFunctionâ of the Prairie in Against the Day
Francisco Collado-RodrÃguez: From Science to Terrorism: The Transgressing Function of Energy in Pynchonâs Against the Day
Hanjo Berressem: âVectors and [Eigen]Valuesâ: The Mathematics of Movement in Against the Day
Contributors
Index