Pynchon's California / edited by Scott McClintock and John Miller.

Other author McClintock, Scott, editor.
Other author Miller, John, 1959 July 2-, editor.
Format Book
PublicationIowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2014.
Description238 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesThe New American Canon: The Iowa Series in Contemporary Literature and Culture
New American canon. ^A1154829
Contents Introduction: surveying Pynchon's California / Scott McClintock and John Miller -- Situated fictions: reading the California novels against Thomas Pynchon's narrative world / Margaret Lynd -- Life on the beach: the natural elements in Thomas Pynchon's California trilogy / Hanjo Berressem -- Pynchon's coast: Inherent vice and the twilight of the spatially specific / Bill Millard -- The origins of the family, private property, and the state of California in Pynchon's fiction / Scott McClintock -- Playgrounds of detection: the Californian private eye in Thomas Punchon's The crying of lot 49 and Inherent vice / Scott Macleod -- Profane illuminations: postmodernism, realism, and the Holytail marijuana crop in Thomas Pynchon's Vineland / Henry Veggian -- Postmodern sacrality and Inherent vice / Christopher K. Coffman -- Reading, resistance, and the California turn in Pynchon's cornucopian fiction / John Miller -- Maybe he'd have to just keep driving, or, Pynchon the freeway / Stephen Hock.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index.
Genre/formCriticism, interpretation, etc.
LCCN 2014010227
ISBN9781609382735 (pbk)
ISBN1609382730 (pbk)
Standard identifier# 40024181949

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks PS3566.Y55 Z84 2014 ✔ Available Place Hold