Coviello Vineland Reread

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-54604-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: Rereadings

Vineland is hardly anyone’s favorite Thomas Pynchon novel. However, for Peter Coviello, the oft-overlooked book 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coviello, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: Whatever’s Fair
Part I
1. The Great Southcoast Plaza Eyeshadow Raid (’94)
2. They Woke, the Thanatoids Awoke (’02)
Part II
3. Scabland Garrison State (’08)
4. Secret Retributions (’19–.)
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Coviello Peter:
Peter Coviello is Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of four books, most recently Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America (NYU Press, 2013) and Long Players: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs (Penguin, 2018). His scholarly and critical writing has appeared in PMLA, American Literature, ELH, GLQ, Raritan, Los Angeles Review of Books, Avidly, Frieze, and The Believer. With Jared Hickman he co-edited a 2014 special issue of American Literature entitled “After the Postsecular.” I selected him for his work in early-twentieth-century American culturPeter Coviello is professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His most recent books include Long Players: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs (2018) and Make Yourselves Gods: Mormons and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism (2019).