Pynchon and history : metahistorical rhetoric and postmodern narrative form in the novels of Thomas Pynchon /
Smith, Shawn,1968 October 8-
New York ; London : Routledge,
2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-239) and index.
Pynchon and history: an overview -- Truth and falsity don't apply: V. and the historiographic method -- Gravity's Rainbow: wrecking the elegant rooms of history -- Simulated history: Vineland and postmodern America -- Westward the course of empire: Mason & Dixon and the rewriting of the American romance.
Pynchon, Thomas
Pynchon, Thomas
Historical fiction, American
Narration (Rhetoric)
Postmodernism (Literature)
Literature and history
Historiography