Stefan Mattessich

Lines of Flight

Discursive Time and Countercultural Desire in the Work of Thomas Pynchon

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Produktbeschreibung

""Lines of Flight" is an impressive achievement, reminiscent of the work of Fredric Jameson in its engagement with social and political issues, its sensitivity to questions of the ideology of form, and the authority with which it parses complex problems of textuality and discourse and identifies their cultural significance. Pynchon has not had so sympathetic a reader."--Hayden White, Stanford University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780822329947
• ISBN-10: 0822329948
• Artikelnr.: 21048115

Autorenporträt

Stefan Mattessich is Professor of English at Santa Monica College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
> 1. Imperium, Misogyny, and Postmodern Parody in V.
2. Ekphrasis, Escape, and Countercultural Desire in The Crying of Lot 49
3. Turning Around the Origin in Gravity’s Rainbow: Parody, Preterition,
Paranoia, and Other Polymera
4. A Close Reading of Part I, Episode 19, of Gravity’s Rainbow
5. Docile Bodies and the Body without Organs: Gravity’s Gravity’s Rainbow
6. Totality and the Repetition of Difference: Rereading the 1960s in
Vineland
7. A Vigilant Folly: Lines of Flight in Mason & Dixon
Conclusion: Toward a Theory of Counterculture
Notes
Works Cited
Index