New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49 (Paperback, New)

The Crying of Lot 49 is widely recognized as a significant contemporary work that frames the desire for meaning and the quest for knowledge within the social and political contexts of the '50s and '60s in America. In the introduction to this collection of original essays on Thomas Pynchon's important novel, Patrick O'Donnell discusses the background and critical reception of the novel. Further essays by five experts on contemporary literature examine the novel's "semiotic regime" or the way in which it organizes signs; the comparison of postmodernist Pynchon and the influential South American writer, Jorge Luis Borges; metaphor in the novel; the novel's narrative strategies; and the novel within the cultural contexts of American Puritanism and the Beat movement. Together, these essays provide an examination of the novel within its literary, historical, and scientific contexts.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The American Novel
Release date:	1992
First published:	1991
Editors:	Patrick O' Donnell
Dimensions:	224 x 145 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	188
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-38833-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	0-521-38833-3
Barcode:	9780521388337

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