Thomas Pynchon and the (de)vices of global (post)modernity

Opis książki:

Introduction
Zofia Kolbuszewska

Politics, Violence, Resistance

The ARPAnet Trip: The Network from Gravity s Ra inbow to Inherent Vice
Petrus van Evijk

"It sure s hell looked like war": Terrorism and the Cold war in Thomas Pynchon s Against the Day and Don De Lillo s Underworld
Martin Paul Eve

Pynchon, Leone and Dynamite
Gilles Chamerois

The Unavoidable Flaws in Hippiedom and Fascism in Thomas Pynchon s Inherent Vice
Celia Wallhead

Alternatives, Potentialities, Counterfactuals

Roads Not Taken: Historical Crossroads and Ideology in Against the Day
Maximilian Heinrich

"This little parenthesis of light, might close after all": Organizational Devices and the End of the Era in Thomas Pynchon s Inherent Vice
Xavier Marcó del Pont

LSD, Leary and the Political Role of Fantasy in Thomas Pynchon s The Crying of Lot 49 and Against the Day
Joanna Freer

Reverberations of Utopia

"Love and Illumination": Ernst Bloch s "On the Original History of the Third Reich" and Pynchon s Imagined Europe
Richard Moss

"You can t always blame zombies for their condition": Utopian Escapes in Thomas Pynchon s Inherent Vice
Nick Holdstock

Pynchon s Wild West: The American Myth in Against the Day and Other Works
Jesse E. Sherwood

Fictions of Science and Literature

Moving Images: Light-capturing Technologies, Reality, and the Individual in Thomas Pynchon s Twentieth Century
Georgios Maragos

The Æther in Against the Day
Simon de Bourcier

Mathematics, Reality and Fiction in Pynchon s Against the Day
Nina Engelhardt

Players Culture

Locating Pynchon in the Literary Field: A Critique of Reviews of Against the Day
Matthew Cissell

Pynchon s Games
Sascha Pöhlmann

Performing Pynchon
Gary Thompson

Forensic Imagination

A Mystery s Redemption: Thomas Pynchon and the "Inherent Vice" of Detective Fiction
Paolo Simonetti

Varied Modes of Detection: A Forensic Investigation into Thomas Pynchon s Crying of Lot 49 and Inherent Vice
Arkadiusz Misztal

(De)constructing identities

Pynchon and Race: V. Reconsidered
Michael Harris

"[P]aper secrets rained back into slurry" - Pynchon and Invisibility: The Case of Hans Kammler
Terry Reilly

The Character of Preterition: An Apology for Pointsman
David Letzler

Appendix

"Time Travelling with Pynchon in 2010: Reaching Seven from V. to IV - Pynchon s Occult Progress"
Douglas Lannark

Works cited

Index

Notes on the Authors

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