Pynchon and history
Subtitle: metahistorical rhetoric and postmodern narrative form in the novels of Thomas Pynchon
By: by Shawn Smith.
Series: Studies in major literary authors; Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Pynchon, Thomas -- Knowledge -- History.; Pynchon, Thomas -- Technique.; Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.; Literature and history -- United States.; Historiography -- United States.; United States -- In literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pynchon and history: an overview; title: Truth and falsity don't apply: V. and the historiographic method; title: Gravity's Rainbow: wrecking the elegant rooms of history; title: Simulated history: Vineland and postmodern America; title: Westward the course of empire: Mason & Dixon and the rewriting of the American romance.