A Hand to Turn the Time

A Hand to Turn the Time

The Menippean Satires of Thomas Pynchon

by Theodore D. Kharpertian

176 pages· 1990· ISBN 9780838633618
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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.

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