Ali Dehdarirad, “From Faraway Californiaˮ: Thomas Pynchon’s Aesthetics of Space in the California Trilogy

If postmodernism was supposed to be an era of space, as heralded by Michel Foucault in his 1967 lecture “Of Other Spacesˮ («Des espaces autres»), then we can say that this brand-new study of Thomas Pynchon’s recurrent topos of California has been long overdue. Research into this author’s work has g...

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Autor Principal: Macura, Sergej
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado: European journal of American studies 2025
Acceso en liña:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:If postmodernism was supposed to be an era of space, as heralded by Michel Foucault in his 1967 lecture “Of Other Spacesˮ («Des espaces autres»), then we can say that this brand-new study of Thomas Pynchon’s recurrent topos of California has been long overdue. Research into this author’s work has gone through several phases, none of which have paid particular attention to the matter of topography as a relevant character- or plot-defining entity. The early studies of the author’s sources enga...