num_pages: 176
description: A study of the major fiction of Thomas Pynchon in three contexts: Menippean satire, post-modernism, and American writing. The critical genealogy of the term satire is discussed and Pynchon's V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow are analyzed.
language: English
title: A Hand to Turn the Time: The Menippean Satires of Thomas Pynchon
titlecomplete: A Hand to Turn the Time: The Menippean Satires of Thomas Pynchon
ratings_count: 5
publisher: UNKNO