Title: Mannerist Fiction Pathologies Of Space From Rabelais To Pynchon
Description: Time and again, Donoghue explains, scientific and literary paradigm shifts have occurred in parallel. Rabelais and Jonson wrote in the aftermath of changes in the western sense of space wrought by Copernicus and the voyages of discovery, Jonathan Swift and the Marquis de Sade in the age of Newton, Thomas Pynchon in the age of Einstein. With his analysis, Donoghue establishes disfigurement and deformation as perennial sources of literary fascination."--pub. desc.
Subjects: English fiction, history and criticism, 18th century, French fiction, history and criticism, Mannerism (art), English fiction, History and criticism, French fiction, Mannerism (Literature), Formalism (Literature), Space and time in literature