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  1. Thomas Pynchon and American counterculture
    Published: 2016; © 2014
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, New York, NY

    "This volume explores the complex fiction of Thomas Pynchon within the context of 1960s counterculture"-- more

    Universitätsbibliothek Passau
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    "This volume explores the complex fiction of Thomas Pynchon within the context of 1960s counterculture"--

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781107429710
    RVK Categories: HU 4797
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; [170]
    Subjects: Counterculture / United States; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Roman; Gegenkultur
    Other subjects: Pynchon, Thomas / Criticism and interpretation; Pynchon, Thomas (1937-)
    Scope: ix, 208 Seiten
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  2. Thomas Pynchon and the American counterculture
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture employs the revolutionary sixties as a lens through which to view the anarchist politics of Pynchon's novels. Joanna Freer identifies and elucidates Pynchon's commentaries on such groups as the Beats, the... more

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    Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture employs the revolutionary sixties as a lens through which to view the anarchist politics of Pynchon's novels. Joanna Freer identifies and elucidates Pynchon's commentaries on such groups as the Beats, the New Left and the Black Panther Party and on such movements as the psychedelic movement and the women's movement, drawing out points of critique to build a picture of a complex countercultural sensibility at work in Pynchon's fiction. In emphasising the subtleties of Pynchon's responses to counterculture, Freer clarifies his importance as an intellectually rigorous political philosopher. She further suggests that, like the graffiti in Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon creates texts that are 'revealed in order to be thought about, expanded on, translated into action by the people', his early attraction to core countercultural values growing into a conscious, politically motivated writing project that reaches its most mature expression in Against the Day

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781139875967
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    RVK Categories: HU 4797
    Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 170
    Subjects: Counterculture / United States; Roman; Gegenkultur
    Other subjects: Pynchon, Thomas / Criticism and interpretation; Pynchon, Thomas (1937-)
    Scope: 1 online resource (ix, 208 pages)
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    Introduction -- 1. On the road to anti-structure: V., The Crying Lot 49 and the Beats -- 2. Love, violence and yippie subversion in Gravity's Rainbow: Pynchon and the New Left -- 3. The psychedelic movement, fantasy and anarchism in The Crying Lot 49 and Against the Day -- 4. The Black Panther Party, revolutionary suicide and Gravity's Rainbow -- 5. Feminism moderate and radical in The Crying Lot 49 and Vineland: Pynchon and the women's movement -- Conclusion: A "Little Parenthesis of Light": Pynchoin's Conterculture

  3. Thomas Pynchon and American counterculture
    Published: 2016; © 2014
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, New York, NY

    "This volume explores the complex fiction of Thomas Pynchon within the context of 1960s counterculture"-- more

    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    "This volume explores the complex fiction of Thomas Pynchon within the context of 1960s counterculture"--

     

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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781107429710
    RVK Categories: HU 4797
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Series: Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; [170]
    Subjects: Counterculture / United States; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Roman; Gegenkultur
    Other subjects: Pynchon, Thomas / Criticism and interpretation; Pynchon, Thomas (1937-)
    Scope: ix, 208 Seiten
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index