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Thomas Pynchon's fiction has been considered masculinist,
misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal
experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to
complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem. To the
present day, deep critical divisions persist as to whether
Pynchon's representations of women are sexist, feminist, or
reflective of a more general misanthropy, whether his writing of
sex is boorishly pornographic or effectually transgressive, whether
queer identities are celebrated or mocked, and whether his
departures from realist convention express masculinist elitism or
critique the gendering of genre. Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender
reframes these debates. As the first book-length investigation of
Pynchon's writing to put the topics of sex and gender at its core,
it moves beyond binary debates about whether to see Pynchon as
liberatory or conservative, instead examining how his preoccupation
with sex and gender conditions his fiction's whole worldview. The
essays it contains, which cumulatively address all of Pynchon's
novels from V. (1963) to Bleeding Edge (2013), investigate such
topics as the imbrication of gender and power, sexual abuse and the
writing of sex, the gendering of violence, and the shifting
representation of the family. Providing a wealth of new approaches
to the centrality of sex and gender in Pynchon's work, the
collection opens up new avenues for Pynchon studies as a whole.
Is time an illusion? Do past, present, and future co-exist in a
timeless whole, or are our experiences of change and duration the
reality of time? Thomas Pynchon's writing has always been
interested in the interplay of these two ways of thinking about
time, but his recent fiction has also taken on the task of
imaginatively responding to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, which
in the early years of the twentieth century renewed this ancient
debate. In this book, Simon de Bourcier looks in detail at
Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day, which is set during the
period in which Einstein published his world-changing theory, and
1997's Mason & Dixon, set in the eighteenth century when Isaac
Newton's picture of a world governed by absolute space and time was
unchallenged. By comparing these two novels, Pynchon and Relativity
shows that Pynchon's tales of loss, haunting, and time travel are
informed by a sophisticated awareness of the philosophical
implications of Relativity. The book goes on to examine the
consequences of this for our reading of Pynchon's other work.
Is time an illusion? Do past, present, and future co-exist in a
timeless whole, or are our experiences of change and duration the
reality of time? Thomas Pynchon's writing has always been
interested in the interplay of these two ways of thinking about
time, but his recent fiction has also taken on the task of
imaginatively responding to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, which
in the early years of the twentieth century renewed this ancient
debate. In this book, Simon deBourcier looks in detail at Pynchon's
2006 novel Against the Day, which is set during the period in which
Einstein published his world-changing theory, and 1997's Mason
& Dixon, set in the eighteenth century when Isaac Newton's
picture of a world governed by absolute space and time was
unchallenged. By comparing these two novels, Pynchon and Relativity
shows that Pynchon's tales of loss, haunting, and time travel are
informed by a sophisticated awareness of the philosophical
implications of Relativity. The book goes on to examine the
consequences of this for our reading of Pynchon's other work.
Thomas Pynchon's fiction has been considered masculinist,
misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal
experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to
complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem. To the
present day, deep critical divisions persist as to whether
Pynchon's representations of women are sexist, feminist, or
reflective of a more general misanthropy, whether his writing of
sex is boorishly pornographic or effectually transgressive, whether
queer identities are celebrated or mocked, and whether his
departures from realist convention express masculinist elitism or
critique the gendering of genre. Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender
reframes these debates. As the first book-length investigation of
Pynchon's writing to put the topics of sex and gender at its core,
it moves beyond binary debates about whether to see Pynchon as
liberatory or conservative, instead examining how his preoccupation
with sex and gender conditions his fiction's whole worldview. The
essays it contains, which cumulatively address all of Pynchon's
novels from V. (1963) to Bleeding Edge (2013), investigate such
topics as the imbrication of gender and power, sexual abuse and the
writing of sex, the gendering of violence, and the shifting
representation of the family. Providing a wealth of new approaches
to the centrality of sex and gender in Pynchon's work, the
collection opens up new avenues for Pynchon studies as a whole.
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