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Author
Series
Twayne's United States authors volume TUSAS 607
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
When in 1989 Thomas Pynchon came out with his fourth novel after a 17-year hiatus from publishing, it was perhaps not without a hint of irony that the New York Times Book Review turned to Salman Rushdie for commentary. Here was an author forced into exile (literally to save his life) reviewing the work of one who has chosen his own exile (perhaps to guard his gift) - a man who has studiously avoided interviews and about whom little is known. The horrific...
10) Thomas Pynchon
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
A collection of critical essays on Pynchon and his works. Also includes a chronology of events in the author's life.
Author
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
What does narrative look like when the possibility of an expansive future has been called into question? This query is the driving force behind Daniel Grausam's On Endings, which seeks to show how the core texts of American postmodernism are a response to the geopolitical dynamics of the Cold War and especially to the new potential for total nuclear conflict. Postwar American fiction needs to be rethought, he argues, by highlighting postmodern experimentation...
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Covers authors who are currently active or who died after December 31, 1959. Profiles novelists, poets, playwrights and other creative and nonfiction writers by providing criticism taken from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals.