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Time and Vision Machines in Thomas Pynchon’s Novels

Arkadiusz Misztal author Marek Wilczyński editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Peter Lang AG

Published:29th Jul '19

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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.

ISBN: 9783631788097

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 299g

172 pages

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