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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aCoviello, Peter
_eautore
245 1 0 _aVineland Reread /
_cPeter Coviello.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2020
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tPrologue: Whatever’s Fair --
_tPART I --
_t1. The Great South Coast Plaza Eyeshadow Raid (’94) --
_t2. They Woke, the Thanatoids Awoke (’02) --
_tPART II --
_t3. Scabland Garrison State (’08) --
_t4. Secret Retributions (’19– . . .) --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aVineland is hardly anyone’s favorite Thomas Pynchon novel. Marking Pynchon’s return after vanishing for nearly two decades following his epic Gravity’s Rainbow, it was initially regarded as slight, a middling curiosity. However, for Peter Coviello, the oft-overlooked Vineland opens up new ways of thinking about Pynchon’s writing and about how we read and how we live in the rough currents of history.Beginning with his early besotted encounters with Vineland, Coviello reads Pynchon’s offbeat novel of sixties insurgents stranded in the Reaganite summer of 1984 as a delirious stoner comedy that is simultaneously a work of heartsick fury and political grief: a portrait of the hard afterlives of failed revolution in a period of stifling reaction. Offering a roving meditation on the uses of criticism and the practice of friendship, the fashioning of publics and counterpublics, the sentence and the police, Coviello argues that Vineland is among the most abundant and far-sighted of late-century American excursions into novelistic possibility. Departing from visions of Pynchon as the arch-postmodernist, erudite and obscure, he discloses an author far more companionable and humane. In Pynchon’s harmonizing of joyousness and outrage, comedy and sorrow, Coviello finds a model for thinking through our catastrophic present.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Jan 2023)
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.
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