Studies in Literature and Culture. Volume 8

Zofia Kolbuszewska
ISBN: 978-83-7702-610-6
Pages: 394
Format: 220 x 205 mm
Year: 2012
Language: English


CONTENTS

Introduction
Zofia Kolbuszewska

Politics, Violence, Resistance

The ARPAnet Trip: The Network from Gravity's Rainbow 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 DeLillo'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