| Time and Vision Machines in Thomas Pynchon's Novels Contributor(s): Wilczyński, Marek (Other), Misztal, Arkadiusz (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631788096 ISBN-13: 9783631788097 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $63.16 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Series: Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (0.84 lbs) 172 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book studies the complex relations between time and visual technologies in the oeuvre of Thomas Pynchon within the general framework of the culture and politics of time. It argues that notwithstanding a postmodern tendency towards the spatialization of experience, temporality constitutes a major concern in Pynchon's novels, which explore the problematic of time-experience and temporal representation against the background of the contemporary technosphere and its temporal regimes. By examining photography, cinema, television, computers, and the Internet, this book puts Pynchon's engagement with visual technologies into a perspective that elucidates their workings as time machines in relation to both experientiality and materiality. |
