Pynchon's Against the day a corrupted pilgrim's guide / edited by Jeffrey Severs and Christopher Leise.

Other author Severs, Jeffrey, 1974-
Other author Leise, Christopher, 1978-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNewark [Del.] : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Md. : Co-published with the Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
Descriptionix, 293 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Contents Part I: Narrative Strategies -- 1. Genre as History: Pynchon's Genre-Poaching / Brian McHale -- 2. Plots, Pilgrimage, and the Politics of Genre in Against the Day / Amy J. Elias -- 3. Mapping, the Unmappable, and Pynchon's Antitragic Vision / Krysztof Piekarski, Martin Kevorkian, and Elisabeth McKetta -- 4. Binocular Disparity and Pynchon's Panoramic Paradigm / Justin St. Clair -- Part II: Science, Belief, and Faith -- 5. Bogomilism, Orphism, Shamanism: The Spiritual and Spatial Grounds of Pynchon's Ecological Ethic / Christopher K. Coffman -- 6. Readers and Trespassers: Time Travel, Orthogonal Time, and Alternative Figurations of Time in Against the Day / Inger H. Dalsgaard -- 7. Narrating Tesla in Against the Day / Terry Reilly -- Part III: Politics and Economics -- 8. The Religious and Political Vision of Against the Day / Kathryn Hume -- 8. Daydreams and Dynamite: Anarchist Strategies of Resistance and Paths for Transformation in Against the Day / Graham Benton -- 10. "The abstractions she was instructed to embody": Women, Capitalism, and Artisitic Representation in Against the Day / Jeffrey Severs -- 11. Europe's "Easterm Question" and the United States' "Western Question": Representing Ethnic Wars in Against the Day / J. Paul Narkunas.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2010053749
ISBN9781611490640 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN1611490642 (cloth : alk. paper)

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