The New Pynchon Studies

The essays in this collection are at the forefront of Pynchon studies, representing distinctively twenty-first century approaches to his work.

This book is aimed at both established scholars and graduate students. Informed by twenty-first-century theoretical, political, and analytical developments, it provides established scholars with a useful overview of new directions in Pynchon scholarship. For students, it brings together essays that cover a broad range of topics and new approaches.This book captures a cross-section of the most significant recent developments in criticism on one of the most challenging authors of our time. It brings together essays by a new generation of Pynchon critics alongside some more established names in the field, building on and moving beyond existing critical paradigms in the study of Pynchon's work. In a critical landscape in which the postmodernism of Pynchon's earlier novels has been thoroughly established, this collection presents fresh analytical methodologies and new perspectives on Pynchon's fiction informed by the more expansive, globalized, and politicized network models that undergird recent advances in American literary theory and criticism. The New Pynchon Studies illustrates how Pynchon's later novels, Against the Day, Inherent Vice, and Bleeding Edge, demand a re-orientation of our approach to his entire oeuvre and enables readers to trace lines of continuity and development in his writing from V. to the present day.