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Title Pynchon and history : metahistorical rhetoric and postmodern narrative form in the novels of Thomas Pynchon / Shawn Smith.

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New York : Routledge, 2005.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (257 pages).
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	computer rdamedia
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Series	Studies in major literary authors
	Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-239) and index.
Contents	Pynchon and history: an overview -- Truth and falsity don't apply: V. and the historiographic method -- Gravity's Rainbow: wrecking the elegant rooms of history -- Simulated history: Vineland and postmodern America -- Westward the course of empire: Mason & Dixon and the rewriting of the American romance.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Subject	Pynchon, Thomas -- Knowledge -- History.
	Pynchon, Thomas -- Technique.
	Historical fiction, American -- History and criticism.
	Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.
	Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
	Literature and history -- United States.
	Historiography -- United States.
	United States -- In literature.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Smith, Shawn. Pynchon and history : metahistorical rhetoric and postmodern narrative form in the novels of Thomas Pynchon. New York : Routledge, 2005 viii, 248 pages ; 24 cm. Studies in major literary authors 9780415975438 (OCoLC)60715234 (DLC) 2005017778
ISBN	0415975433 (alk. paper)
	9780415975438 (alk. paper)
	9780203959329 (electronic bk.)