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THOMAS PYNCHON IN CONTEXT Thomas Pynchon in Context enables students, scholars, and other readerstoengageeffectivelywiththeglobalscopeandprolificimagi- nationofPynchon’swork,providingthemostup-to-dateandauthor- itative scholarly analyses of his challenging and canonical writing. This book is divided into three sections. The first, “Times and Places,” sets out the history and geographical contexts both for the settingofPynchon’snovelsandhisownlife.Thesecond,“Culture, Politics, and Society,” examines twenty important and recurring themes that most clearly define Pynchon’s writing – ranging from ideas in philosophy and the sciences to humor and pop culture. Thefinalsection,“ApproachesandReadings,” outlinesandassesses waystoreadandunderstandPynchon.Consistingofforty-fouressays writtenbysomeoftheworld’sleadingscholars,thisvolumeoutlines the most important contexts for understanding Pynchon’s writing andhelpsreadersinterpretandreferencehisliterarywork. inger h. dalsgaard isAssociateProfessorinAmericanStudiesat the DepartmentofEnglish, Aarhus University.She is the author of numerousessaysandarticlesonThomasPynchonandtheco-editor, withLucHermanandBrianMcHale,ofTheCambridgeCompanion toThomasPynchon(Cambridge,2012). THOMAS PYNCHON IN CONTEXT edited by INGER H. DALSGAARD AarhusUniversity UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06–04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. 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Contents ListofContributors pageix ListofAbbreviations xviii ChronologybyJohnM.Krafft xix Introduction 1 IngerH.Dalsgaard part i times and places 5 1 Biography 7 JohnM.Krafft 2 LettersandJuvenilia 15 AlbertRolls 3 Nonfiction 23 KatieMuth 4 EastCoast 31 ChristopherLeise 5 WestCoast 39 ScottMcClintockandJohnMiller 6 EuropeandAsia 47 J.PaulNarkunas 7 AfricaandLatinAmerica 57 MichaelHarris 8 GeographiesandMapping 67 SaschaPöhlmann 9 TheEighteenthCentury 74 ElizabethJaneWallHinds v vi Contents 10 TheNineteenthCentury 82 PaoloSimonetti 11 TheTwentiethCentury 89 StevenWeisenburger 12 TheTwenty-FirstCentury 97 CeliaWallhead 13 HistoryandMetahistory 104 DavidCowart part ii culture, politics, and society 113 14 Family 115 MarkRohland 15 SexandGender 122 AliChetwyndandGeorgiosMaragos 16 Humor 130 DougHaynes 17 PopularCulture 138 EricSandberg 18 MusicandSound 146 JustinSt.Clair 19 FilmandTelevision 154 JohnDugdale 20 RealEstateandtheInternet 162 IngerH.Dalsgaard 21 PoliticsandCounterculture 172 JoannaFreer 22 DrugsandHippies 180 UmbertoRossi 23 EcologyandtheEnvironment 187 ChristopherK.Coffman 24 CapitalismandClass 195 JeffreySevers Contents vii 25 WarandPower 203 DaleCarter 26 ConspiracyandParanoia 211 SamuelChaseCoale 27 TerrorandAnarchy 217 JamesGourley 28 ScienceandTechnology 225 GillesChamerois 29 Mathematics 233 NinaEngelhardt 30 TimeandRelativity 239 SimondeBourcier 31 Philosophy 247 MartinPaulEve 32 ReligionandSpirituality 254 RichardMoss 33 DeathandAfterlife 262 TiinaKäkelä part iii approaches and readings 271 34 Narratology 273 LucHerman 35 Genre 281 ZofiaKolbuszewska 36 Postmodernism 289 BrianMcHale 37 Ambiguity 298 DeborahL.Madsen 38 Realities 307 KathrynHume 39 MaterialReadings 315 ToreRyeAndersen viii Contents 40 DigitalReadings 323 JosephTabbi 41 InternetResources 332 MichelRyckxandTimWare 42 Fandom 341 DavidKipen 43 BookReviewsandReception 346 DouglasKeesey 44 CriticalLiteratureReview 354 HanjoBerressem FurtherReading 361 PrimaryBibliography 361 Novels 361 ShortFiction 361 Nonfiction 362 Letters 362 SecondaryBibliography 364 Index 381 Contributors tore rye andersen isanAssociateProfessorofComparativeLiterature at Aarhus University, Director of the Center for Literature Between Media,andeditoroftheliteraryjournalPassage.HeistheauthorofDen nye amerikanske roman/The New American Novel (2011), and he has published anumber ofarticlesonAmericanandBritish fictionandon thematerialityofliteratureinjournalssuchasCritique,EnglishStudies, OrbisLitterarum,andConvergence. hanjo berressem teaches American Literature at the University of Cologne. He is author of Pynchon’s Poetics: Interfacing Theory and Text (1992) and Lines of Desire: Reading Gombrowicz’s Fiction with Lacan (1999),andco-editorofDeleuzianEvents:Writing|History(2009)andSite- Specific: From Aachen to Zwölfkinder – Pynchon|Germany (2008). His book Eigenvalue: On the Gradual Contraction of Media in Movement / ContemplatingMediainArt[Sound|Image|Sense]waspublishedin2018. dale carter isAssociateProfessorofAmericanStudiesandDirectorof the American Studies Center, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is author and editor of a number of books dealing with aspects of twen- tieth-century American history, society, and culture, including The Final Frontier: The Rise and Fall of the American Rocket State (1988), which relates the US manned space program to Pynchon’s Gravity’sRainbow. gilles chamerois is an associate professor at the University of Brest, France.Hehaseditedorco-editedtwocollectionsofessaysonPynchon and published several articles on Pynchon and science, their subjects rangingfromanachronisticreferencestomodern-dayscienceinMason &DixontoaeronauticsandthefigureofNikolaTeslainAgainsttheDay. He has also published on film and has co-written two books on adaptation. ix x ListofContributors ali chetwynd is Assistant Professor and Chair of English at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. He works on antimimetic fiction’s constructive argumentative capacities, and has published on Pynchon, William Gaddis, Ben Jonson, and the philosophical antece- dentsofUSpostmodernism.WithGeorgiosMaragosandJoannaFreer heedited ThomasPynchon,Sex,andGender(2018),andheco-editsthe bookreviewsforOrbit:AJournalofAmericanLiterature. samuel chase coale teaches American Literature and Culture at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. His recent books include The Entanglements of Nathaniel Hawthorne (2011) and Quirks of the Quantum: Postmodernism and Contemporary American Fiction (2012). HehasrecentlylecturedinJapan,Jordan,andLebanon. christopher k. coffman isaSeniorLecturerinHumanitiesatBoston University. He is the author of Rewriting Early America: The Prenational PastinPostmodernLiterature(2019)andco-editorofWilliamT.Vollmann: ACriticalCompanion(2015)andFramingFilms:CriticalPerspectivesonFilm History(2009).AmonghisotherpublicationsarechaptersinMcClintock and Miller’s Pynchon’s California (2014) and Severs and Leise’s Pynchon’s AgainsttheDay:ACorruptedPilgrim’sGuide(2011). david cowart,LouiseFryScudderProfessorEmeritusattheUniversity ofSouthCarolina,istheauthorofThomasPynchon:TheArtofAllusion (1980) and Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History (2015), as wellasotherbooksoncontemporaryliterature. ingerh.dalsgaardisAssociateProfessorofAmericanStudiesatAarhus University,Denmark.SheistheeditorofThomasPynchoninContext,the co-editor ofTheCambridgeCompanion toThomas Pynchon(Cambridge UniversityPress,2012),andtheauthorofnumerousessaysonPynchon. simondebourcieristheauthorofPynchonandRelativity:NarrativeTime in Thomas Pynchon’s Later Novels, as well as articles on Pynchon, David FosterWallace,andNealStephenson.HehasdegreesfromtheUniversityof Cambridge,AngliaRuskinUniversity,andtheUniversityofEastAnglia. john dugdale is the author of Thomas Pynchon: Allusive Parables of Power (1990). He writes about books and the media for the Guardian andtheSundayTimes. nina engelhardt istheauthorofModernism,FictionandMathematics (2018)andseveralessaysonmathematicsandscienceinPynchon’swork.
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