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Pynchon and History - Metahistorical Rhetoric and Postmodern Narrative Form in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon (Hardcover)
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Pynchon and History - Metahistorical Rhetoric and Postmodern Narrative Form in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Major Literary Authors
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Addressing a distinct gap in the field, Shawn Smith explores
Pynchon as a historical novelist and thinker. Interpreting
Pynchon's four major novels: V., Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland and
Mason & Dixon, he argues that what we call the postmodern
characteristics of Thomas Pynchon's narrative technique are
rhetorical arguments, expressed through the forms of his texts, for
Pynchon's philosophy of what twentieth century history has meant,
as well as a rhetorical commentary on the problems of
historiographic representation. Focusing on Pynchon as a historical
novelist, as well as a writer with complex ideas on both
historiographic representation and how historical knowledge
develops and is communicated, this book's fresh approach makes it
invaluable to Pynchon scholars and students of postmodern fiction.
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