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Time and Vision Machines in Thomas Pynchon's Novels

Time and Vision Machines in Thomas Pynchon's Novels

Hardcover

Series: Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture, Book 29

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3631788096
ISBN13: 9783631788097
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
Published: Jul 29 2019
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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