{"product_id":"american-postmodernity-ian-copestake-9783039100170","title":"American Postmodernity: Essays on the Recent Fiction of Thomas Pynchon","description":"This book brings together nine original essays from Pynchon scholars around the world whose work furthers the debate concerning the nature of perceived shifts in the sensibility, style and subject-matter of Pynchon's fiction from \u003ci\u003eThe Crying of Lot 49\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eMason \u0026amp; Dixon\u003c\/i\u003e. Of particular concern is the complex relationship between Pynchon's challenging and evolving oeuvre and notions of postmodernity which this volume's focus on Pynchon's most recent fiction helps bring up-to-date. Five of the collection's essays examine the writer's achievement in \u003ci\u003eMason \u0026amp; Dixon\u003c\/i\u003e and were first presented in 1998 as papers at King's College, London, as part of International Pynchon Week. The volume includes contributions from renowned Pynchon scholars such as David Seed, David Thoreen and Francisco Collado Rodríquez, and offers perspectives on Pynchon's achievement in \u003ci\u003eThe Crying of Lot 49\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVineland\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMason \u0026amp; Dixon\u003c\/i\u003e which view those works in relation to a fascinating variety of subjects such as hybridity, mapmaking and representation, the work of Marshall McLuhan, American comic traditions, metafiction, madness in American fiction, science and ethics. Reconfirmed throughout is the ethical seriousness of a writer who remains one of American literature's most fascinating, important and ever elusive figures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ian Copestake\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3039100173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783039100170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/14\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d","brand":"Ian Copestake","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48996273651967,"sku":"9783039100170","price":88.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/american-postmodernity-ian-copestake-9783039100170","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}