Cowart, David, 1947-

Thomas Pynchon and the dark passages of history [electronic resource] / David Cowart. - Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2011. - xix, 250 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Calibrating Clio -- Prospero's apprenticeship: slow learner -- History and myth: Pynchon's V -- Streben nach dem unendlichen: Germany and German culture in Pynchon's early work -- Pynchon and the sixties: the California novels -- The luddite vision: Mason & Dixon -- Pynchon, genealogy, history: Against the day -- The historiographer historicized: Pynchon and literary history.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780820337098 (electronic bk.)




Pynchon, Thomas--Criticism and interpretation.


Electronic books.

PS3566.Y55 / Z59 2011

813/.54