A Hand to Turn the Time: The Menippean Satires of Thomas Pynchon
Theodore D. Kharpertian
176 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0838633617
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Language: English
Publish: February 1, 1990
A study of the major fiction of Thomas Pynchon in three contexts: Menippean satire, post-modernism, and American writing. The critical genealogy of the term satire is discussed and Pynchon’s V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity’s Rainbow are analyzed.