Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
239
Language
English
Published
Mar 1, 1990
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
ISBN-10
0252017005
ISBN-13
9780252017001
Description
Using a strategy they call 'bookmatching', the authors explore ways in which contemporary literary theory can be used to read fiction. In particular, they focus on Thomas Pynchon's three novels and his early stories.Employing the deconstructive literary theories of Jacques Derrida, Writing Pynchon challenges habits of reading that are self-consciously held by the vast majority of critics of the contemporary American novel. McHoul and Wills have written not merely a book about Pynchon but a book about reading in general, illustrated with examples from Pynchon's oeuvre .
Genres
Contemporary