For Thomas Pynchon, the characteristic features of late capitalism-the rise of the military-industrial complex, consumerism, bureaucratization and specialization in the workplace, standardization at all levels of social life, and the growing influence of the mass media-all point to a transformation in the way human beings experience time and duration. Focusing on Pynchon’s novels as representative artifacts of the postwar period, Stefan Mattessich analyzes this temporal transformation in relation not only to Pynchon’s work but also to its literary, cultural, and theoretical contexts.
Mattessich theorizes a new kind of time-subjective displacement-dramatized in the parody, satire, and farce deployed through Pynchon’s oeuvre. In particular, he is interested in showing how this sense of time relates to the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s. Examining this movement as an instance of flight or escape and exposing the beliefs behind it, Mattessich argues that the counterculture’s rejection of the dominant culture ultimately became an act of self-cancellation, a rebellion in which the counterculture found itself defined by the very order it sought to escape. He points to parallels in Pynchon’s attempts to dramatize and enact a similar experience of time in the doubling-back, crisscrossing, and erasure of his writing. Mattessich lays out a theory of cultural production centered on the ethical necessity of grasping one’s own susceptibility to discursive forms of determination.
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Stefan Mattessich is Professor of English at Santa Monica College.
""Lines of Flight" is an impressive achievement, reminiscent of the work of Fredric Jameson in its engagement with social and political issues, its sensitivity to questions of the ideology of form, and the authority with which it parses complex problems of textuality and discourse and identifies their cultural significance. Pynchon has not had so sympathetic a reader."--Hayden White, Stanford University
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Zustand: Muy bueno. : En 'Lines of Flight', Stefan Mattessich explora la obra de Thomas Pynchon y su relación con la contracultura de los años 60, 70 y 80. El autor analiza la transformación temporal en las novelas de Pynchon, relacionándola con contextos literarios, culturales y teóricos. Mattessich teoriza un nuevo tipo de tiempo, el desplazamiento subjetivo, dramatizado en la parodia y la sátira presentes en la obra de Pynchon, examinando el movimiento contracultural como una forma de escape y exponiendo las creencias detrás de él. EAN: 9780822329947 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Otros Título: Lines of Flight Autor: Stefan Mattessich Editorial: Duke University Press Idioma: en Páginas: 304 Formato: tapa blanda. Artikel-Nr. Happ-2024-10-24-bac82c11
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