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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “inger h dalsgaard”
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  • Thomas Pynchon in Context

    Edited by Inger H. Dalsgaard ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Thomas Pynchon in Context guides students, scholars and other readers through the global scope and prolific imagination of Pynchon's challenging, canonical work, providing the most up-to-date and authoritative scholarly analyses of his writing. This book is divided into three parts. The first, 'Times and Places', sets out the history and geographical contexts both for the setting of Pynchon's ... Read more

    $143.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

    Edited by Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman, Brian McHale ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The most celebrated American novelist of the past half-century, an indispensable figure of postmodernism worldwide, Thomas Pynchon notoriously challenges his readers. This Companion provides tools for meeting that challenge. Comprehensive, accessible, lively, up-to-date and reliable, it approaches Pynchon's fiction from various angles, calling on the expertise of an international roster of ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender

    by Jennifer Backman, Simon Cook, Inger H. Dalsgaard, Simon de Bourcier, Catherine Flay, Marie Franco, Doug Haynes, Luc Herman, Molly Hite, Kostas Kaltsas, Christopher P. Kocela, John Krafft, Angus McFadzean, Richard Moss, Jeffrey Severs ...
    Thomas Pynchon’s fiction has been considered masculinist, misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem. To the present day, deep critical divisions persist as to whether Pynchon’s representations of women are sexist, feminist, or reflective of a more general misanthropy ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Pynchon's Against the Day

    A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide

    by Jeffrey Severs, Christopher Leise, Graham Benton, Inger H. Dalsgaard, Amy J. Elias, Kathryn Hume, Martin Kevorkian, Elisabeth McKetta, J Paul Narkunas, Krzysztof Piekarski, Terry Reilly, Justin St. Clair, Christopher K. Coffman, Brian McHale ...
    Thomas Pynchon's longest novel to date, Against the Day (2006), excited diverse and energetic opinions when it appeared on bookstore shelves nine years after the critically acclaimed Mason & Dixon. Its wide-ranging plot covers nearly three decades—from the 1893 World's Fair to the years just after World War I—and follows hundreds of characters within its 1085 pages. The book’s eleven essays by ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

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    by Thomas Pynchon ...
    One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years**“The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes.”—**The New York Times**“The work of a virtuoso with prose . . . His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce’s Ulysses.”—**Chicago Tribune“A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.”—San Francsisco Examiner</st... ... Read more

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  • Bleeding Edge

    A Novel

    by Thomas Pynchon ...
    **A New York Times Notable Book"Brilliantly written...a joy to read...Bleeding Edge is totally gonzo, totally wonderful. It really is good to have Thomas Pynchon around, doing what he does best." - Michael Dirda, The Washington Post"Exemplary...dazzling and ludicrous." - Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review**It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com ... Read more

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  • Gravity's Rainbow

    by Thomas Pynchon ...
    **Winner of the National Book Award"The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." —The New Republic**“A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, ... Read more

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  • The Serpent of Venice

    A Novel

    by Christopher Moore ...
    Venice, a long time ago. Three prominent Venetians await their most loathsome and foul dinner guest, the erstwhile envoy from the Queen of Britain: the rascal-Fool Pocket.This trio of cunning plotters—the merchant, Antonio; the senator, Montressor Brabantio; and the naval officer, Iago—have lured Pocket to a dark dungeon, promising an evening of sprits and debauchery with a rare Amontillado sherry ... Read more

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature

    by Laurie Rozakis ...
    You're no idiot, of course. You know that Samuel Clemens had a better-known pen name, Moby Dick is a famous whale, and the Raven only said,"Nevermore." But when it comes to understanding the great works of Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, you'd rather rent the videos than head to your local library. Don't tear up your library card yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide® to American ... Read more

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  • Updike

    by Adam Begley ...
    "A brilliant biography. . . . The joys are . . . discovering the autobiographical content of the . . . details that populate Updike's vast fictional universe." —Orhan Pamuk, The New York Times Book ReviewAdam Begley offers an illuminating portrait of John Updike, Pulitzer prize–winning novelist, poet, short-story writer, and critic who saw himself as a literary spy in small-town and suburban ... Read more

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  • The Brazen Age

    New York City and the American Empire: Politics, Art, and Bohemia

    by David Reid ...
    A brilliant, sweeping, and unparalleled look at the extraordinarily rich culture and turbulent politics of New York City between the years 1945 and 1950, The Brazen Age opens with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s campaign tour through the city’s boroughs in 1944. He would see little of what made New York the capital of modernity—though the aristocratic FDR was its paradoxical avatar—a city boasting an ... Read more

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  • Philip Roth at 80: A Celebration

    A Library of America Special Publication

    by Philip Roth ...
    On March 19, 2013, a distinguished group of writers and critics gathered at the Newark Museum’s Billy Johnson Auditorium in Newark, New Jersey, to celebrate the extraordinary career and lasting literary legacy of Philip Roth on the occasion of his 80th birthday. This keepsake volume gathers remarks from the evening’s speakers, a fitting tribute to the only living novelist whose work is collected ... Read more

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