Research Catalog

Title

Vineland reread / Peter Coviello.

Author

Coviello, Peter

Publication

• New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Description

142 pages; 20 cm.

Summary

"Vineland is hardly anyone's favorite Thomas Pynchon novel. Marking Pynchon's return after vanishing for nearly two decades following his epic Gravity's Rainbow, it was initially regarded as slight, a middling curiosity. However, for Peter Coviello, the oft-overlooked Vineland opens up new ways of thinking about Pynchon's writing and about how we read and how we live in the rough currents of history. Beginning with his early besotted encounters with Vineland, Coviello reads Pynchon's offbeat novel of sixties insurgents stranded in the Reaganite summer of 1984 as a delirious stoner comedy that is simultaneously a work of heartsick fury and political grief: a portrait of the hard afterlives of failed revolution in a period of stifling reaction. Offering a roving meditation on the uses of criticism and the practice of friendship, the fashioning of publics and counterpublics, the sentence and the police, Coviello argues that Vineland is among the most abundant and far-sighted of late-century American excursions into novelistic possibility. Departing from visions of Pynchon as the arch-postmodernist, erudite and obscure, he discloses an author far more companionable and humane. In Pynchon's harmonizing of joyousness and outrage, comedy and sorrow, Coviello finds a model for thinking through our catastrophic present."--

Series Statement

Rereadings

Uniform Title

Rereadings.

Subject

• Pynchon, Thomas
• Pynchon, Thomas > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

• Literary criticism.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliographical references included in "Notes" section (pages 127-137).

Contents

The Great South Coast Plaza Eyeshadow Raid ('94) -- They woke, the Thanatoids awoke ('02) -- 3. Scabland Garrison State ('08) -- Secret Retributions ('19 -- ...).

Call Number

JFD 21-1997

ISBN

• 9780231185202
• 0231185200
• 9780231185219
• 0231185219

LCCN

2020026160

OCLC

1158504821

Author

Coviello, Peter, author.

Title

Vineland reread / Peter Coviello.

Publisher

New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Rereadings

Rereadings.

Bibliography

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" section (pages 127-137).

Other Form:

Online version: Coviello, Peter. Vineland reread New York : Columbia University Press, [2020] 9780231546041 (DLC) 2020026161

Research Call Number

JFD 21-1997