Pynchon and history, metahistorical rhetoric and postmodern narrative form in the novels of Thomas Pynchon, Shawn Smith
Type
Classification
1
Creator
1
Subject
8
- Pynchon, Thomas -- Technique
- Historiography -- United States
- Historical fiction, American + History and criticism
- Literature and history -- United States
- Narration (Rhetoric) + History -- 20th century
- Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States
- Pynchon, Thomas -- Knowledge -- History
- United States -- In literature
Label
Pynchon and history, metahistorical rhetoric and postmodern narrative form in the novels of Thomas Pynchon, Shawn Smith
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-239) and index
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Pynchon and history
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Shawn Smith
Series statement
Studies in major literary authors
Sub title
metahistorical rhetoric and postmodern narrative form in the novels of Thomas Pynchon
Table of contents
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
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