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  • Thomas Pynchon
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    Thomas Pynchon

    Simon Malpas

    This is a comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature. Over a writing career spanning more than fifty years, Thomas Pynchon has been at the forefront of...
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  • Becoming Pynchon Becoming Pynchon
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    Becoming Pynchon

    Luc Herman

    The 1963 publication of Thomas Pynchon's V. changed the landscape of American fiction. Becoming Pynchon: Genetic Narratology and V. offers a detailed examination of the dramatic transformations that...
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  • Pynchon and the Political Pynchon and the Political
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    Pynchon and the Political

    Samuel Thomas

    Thomas Pynchon's writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form of postmodern fiction. It is characterized as genre-defying and enigmatic, as a series of complex and esoteric language games...
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  • The Multiple Worlds of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon
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    The Multiple Worlds of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon

    Elizabeth Jane Wall Hinds

    New essays examining the interface between 18th- and 20th-century culture both in Pynchon's novel and in the historical past. Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel Mason undefined Mason & Dixon went further,...
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  • V.
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    V.

    Pynchon, Thomas

    The first novel by the incomparable Thomas Pynchon. Who, where or what is V.? Thomas Pynchon's debut novel follows discharged Navy sailor Benny Profane as he reconnects with an eclectic collection...
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  • Lines of Flight
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    Lines of Flight

    Stefan Mattessich

    For Thomas Pynchon, the characteristic features of late capitalism--the rise of the military-industrial complex, consumerism, bureaucratization and specialization in the workplace, standardization at...
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  • Gravity's Rainbow
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    Gravity's Rainbow

    A new edition to celebrate the 40th anniversary of first publication of Pynchon's classic book.Discover Thomas Pynchon's brilliant writing in this postmodern literature classic. 'The greatest,...
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  • Crying of Lot 49
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    Crying of Lot 49

    Pynchon, Thomas

    A witty, chaotic and brilliant novel from the incomparable Thomas Pynchon. Oedipa Maas has been made executrix of her former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange...
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  • Pretending is Lying
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    Pretending is Lying

    In a series of dazzling fragments-skipping through time, and from raw, slashing color to delicate black and white-Goblet examines the most important relationships in her life- with her partner, Guy...
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  • Geschichtengeneratoren Geschichtengeneratoren
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    Geschichtengeneratoren

    Gerhard Kebbel

    Die vorliegenden Lektüren paradigmatischer historischer Romane von Walter Scott, Berthold Brecht und Thomas Pynchon untersuchen die konkrete Form der Verarbeitung von Geschichte in Fiktion. In...
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  • Vineland
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    Vineland

    Thomas Pynchon

    'Exhilarating and wretchedly funny. The most important and mysterious writer of his generation' - Time Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a...
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  • Naked Lunch
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    Naked Lunch

    Burroughs, William S.

    A stunning clothbound edition of William S. Burroughs's cult classic and undoubted masterpiece A cultural landmark and the most shocking novel in the English language, Naked Lunch is an exhilarating...
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  • Identity, Narrative and Politics Identity, Narrative and Politics
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    Identity, Narrative and Politics

    Maureen Whitebrook

    Identity, Narrative and Politics argues that political theory has barely begun to develop a notion of narrative identity; instead the book explores the sophisticated ideas which emerge from novels as...
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  • Naked Lunch
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    Naked Lunch

    At long last William S. Burroughs's cult classic and undoubted masterpiece enters Penguin Modern ClassicsA cultural landmark and the most shocking novel in the English language, Naked Lunch is an...
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  • American Exceptionalism as Religion American Exceptionalism as Religion
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    American Exceptionalism as Religion

    Jordan Carson

    Jordan Carson's American Exceptionalism as Religion looks at how American nationalist ideologies intersect with religious ones in contemporary literature. Carson traces out how an exceptionalist...
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  • Cheap Havens Cheap Havens
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    Cheap Havens

    B T Folsom

    Clashing social circles. Frenzied creations and bizarre inventions shared in workshops, rooftops, back alleys, house parties, and overstuffed conference rooms. Deep-set fears and doubts of the...
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  • Inherent Vice
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    Inherent Vice

    Pynchon, Thomas

    The legendary author of V and Gravity's Rainbow is back with a taut, psychedelic yarn, about the sixties, featuring private eye Doc Sportello... Read the cult classic behind the major new film...
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  • Candide (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition) Candide (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
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    Candide (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

    Voltaire

    Candide, Voltaire's magnum opus, is a matchless satirical take-down of religion, theologians, governments, armies, philosophies, and philosophers. The novella unfolds as the sheltered and privileged...
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  • The American Novel Now
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    The American Novel Now

    Patrick O'Donnell

    The American Novel Now navigates the vast terrain of the American novel since 1980, exploring issues of identity, history, family, nation, and aesthetics, as well as cultural movements and narrative...
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  • Essays
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    Essays

    Davis, Lydia

    A crystalline collection of literary essays from the Man Booker International Prize-winning author of Can't and Won't Lydia Davis's writing is a masterclass in control: wry, lucid, penetrating,...
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  • The Twentieth-Century American Fiction Handbook
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    The Twentieth-Century American Fiction Handbook

    Christopher MacGowan

    THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION Accessibly structured with entries on important historical contexts, central issues, key texts and the major writers, this Handbook provides an engaging...
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  • Tears of Rage Tears of Rage
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    Tears of Rage

    Shelly Brivic

    In this provocative study, Shelly Brivic presents the history of the twentieth-century American novel as a continuous narrative dialogue between white and black voices. Exploring four of the most...
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  • Savage Recreation Savage Recreation
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    Savage Recreation

    Ian Bloom

    Ian Bloom wrote Savage Recreation at age 24 in summer residence at the Bowery Hotel, New York, financed by a phantom movie director, at which point, Bloom was then cast in the Warner Brothers film...
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  • Operation Valhalla
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    Operation Valhalla

    Friedrich Kittler

    Operation Valhalla collects eighteen texts by German media theorist Friedrich Kittler on the close connections between war and media technology. In these essays, public lectures, interviews, literary...
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  • Port Lands Port Lands
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    Port Lands

    Tod Molloy

    A hardened sleuth plumbs the darkest corners of the city-and his mind-in this existential modern Noir.Winter. 2018. William Keele's back in town and he's barely getting by. Rents are up and wages are...
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  • Sex, machines and navels Sex, machines and navels
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    Sex, machines and navels

    Fred Botting

    This work offers a critical re-reading of fictions of humanity, history, technology and postmodern culture. Taking psychoanalysis into cyberspace, the book develops an theoretical perspective on the...
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  • Comparative Cinema Comparative Cinema
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    Comparative Cinema

    Paul Coates

    This book comprises what may be called exercises in 'comparative cinema'. Its focus on endings, near-endings and 'late style' is connected with the author's argument that comparative criticism itself...
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  • Fictions of Fact and Value
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    Fictions of Fact and Value

    Fictions of Fact and Value argues that the philosophy of logical positivism, considered the antithesis of literary postmodernism, exerts a determining influence on the development of American fiction...
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  • Why Photography Matters
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    Why Photography Matters

    A lucid and wide-ranging meditation on why photography is unique among the picture-making arts.Photography matters, writes Jerry Thompson, because of how it works-not only as an artistic medium but...
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  • Image coming soon
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    Beyond Plague Urbanism

    Andy Merrifield

    Our cities have been plagued by economic injustices and inequalities long before COVID-19 upended urban life everywhere. Beyond Plague Urbanism delves into this zone of urban pathology and asks what...
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  • No Exit
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    No Exit

    McKelvey, Seth

    America's authors and the unfulfilled desire to escape the state From hippie culture to neoliberalism to Black Lives Matter, anti-state sentiment and rhetoric persists through varying-sometimes and...
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  • Year of Real and Literary Birds
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    Year of Real and Literary Birds

    Laura Godfrey

    A Year of Real and Literary Birds is simultaneously an almanac of bird life, a work of interdisciplinary literary scholarship, and a chronicle of family life. The book paints an intimate portrait of...
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  • From Puritanism to Postmodernism
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    From Puritanism to Postmodernism

    Richard Ruland

    Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature brilliantly charts...
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  • Horn, or The Counterside of Media
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    Horn, or The Counterside of Media

    Henning Schmidgen

    We regularly touch and handle media devices. At the same time, media devices such as body scanners, car seat pressure sensors, and smart phones scan and touch us. In Horn, Henning Schmidgen reflects...
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  • No Exit
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    No Exit

    McKelvey, Seth

    America's authors and the unfulfilled desire to escape the state From hippie culture to neoliberalism to Black Lives Matter, anti-state sentiment and rhetoric persists through varying-sometimes and...
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  • Lost Memory of Skin Lost Memory of Skin
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    Lost Memory of Skin

    Russell Banks

    "Of the many writers working in the great tradition today, one of the best is Russell Banks." --New York Times?"Like our living literary giants Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon, Russell Banks is a...
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  • Fantasy
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    Fantasy

    Dr Rosemary Jackson

    This study argues against vague interpretations of fantasy as mere escapism and seeks to define it as a distinct kind of narrative. A general theoretical section introduces recent work on fantasy,...
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  • A Desire Called America
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    A Desire Called America

    Christian Haines

    Critics of American exceptionalism usually view it as a destructive force eroding the radical energies of social movements and aesthetic practices. In A Desire Called America, Christian P. Haines...
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  • Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel
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    Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel

    Joseph Conte

    Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel suggests that literature after September 11, 2001 reflects the shift from bilateral nation-state politics to the multilateralism of transnational...
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