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Pynchon and history : metahistorical rhetoric and postmodern narrative form in the novels of Thomas Pynchon
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- Summary
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First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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- Creator
- Shawn Smith
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Routledge, 2005
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- ISBNs
- 130611702X, 9780415975438, 1135492646, 1135492719, 9781135492649, 0415975433, 9780415803373, 0203959329, 9781135492717, 9780203959329, 0415803373
- OCLC
- ocn862746072, ocn863823642, ocm60715234
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-239) and index.
- English
- Pynchon and history: an overview -- Truth and falsity don't apply: V. and the historiographic method -- Gravity's Rainbow: wrecking the elegant rooms of history -- Simulated history: Vineland and postmodern America -- Westward the course of empire: Mason & Dixon and the rewriting of the American romance
Subjects
- Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism.
- Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.
- Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
- Literature and history -- United States.
- Historiography -- United States.
- United States -- In literature.
- Pynchon, Thomas -- Knowledge -- History.
- Pynchon, Thomas -- Technique.