Thomas Pynchon's narratives
Subtitle: subjectivity and problems of knowing
By: Alan W. Brownlie.
Series: Modern American literature ;; v. 24; Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ;; v. 24.
Publisher: Peter Lang; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Pynchon, Thomas -- Criticism and interpretation.; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.; Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.; Subjectivity in literature.
Description: "In his first three novels, Thomas Pynchon focuses in part on the inability to achieve reliable knowledge of the self and the world. As a consequence of this and of the events around which Pynchon builds these early novels, V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow tend to be read as nihilistic.

This book focuses on Pynchon's use of ideas of western history, philosophy, and science to arrive at a reading that suggests that Pynchon's project in these early novels is to provoke his readers into taking precisely the sort of personal and political action his characters cannot."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-164) and index.