American Postmodernity: Essays on the Recent Fiction of Thomas Pynchon

This book brings together nine original essays from Pynchon scholars around the world whose work furthers the debate concerning the nature of perceived shifts in the sensibility, style and subject-matter of Pynchon’s fiction from The Crying of Lot 49 to Mason & Dixon. Of particular concern is the complex relationship between Pynchon’s challenging and evolving œuvre and notions of postmodernity which this volume’s focus on Pynchon’s most recent fiction helps bring up-to-date. Five of the col...