Approaches to Teaching Pynchon's the Crying of Lot 49 and Other Works (Approaches to Teaching World Literature, Band 99) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087352814X ISBN 13: 9780873528146

Verlag: Modern Language Association of America, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

As teachers well know, the elements that make Thomas Pynchon exciting to read and study—the historical references, the multilayered prose, and the postmodern integration of high and low cultures and science and literature—often constitute hurdles to undergraduate and graduate readers alike. The essays gathered in this volume turn these classroom challenges into assets, showing instructors how to make the narratives' frustration of reader expectations not only intellectually rewarding but also part of the joy of reading The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, and other Pynchon works, short and long.

Like all volumes in the Approaches to Teaching series, the collection opens with a survey of original and supplementary materials. The essays that follow offer an array of classroom techniques: among them, ways to contextualize the novels in their historical settings, from Puritan America through World War II and the volatile 1960s; to use the texts to explore racial and gender politics and legacies of colonialism; and to make Pynchon's elaborate prose style accessible to students. Teachers will also find sample syllabi for courses solely on Pynchon as well as suggestions for incorporating his work into graduate and undergraduate classrooms at a range of institutions.

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Thomas H. Schaub is professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published essays on James Fenimore Cooper, William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Thomas Pynchon. He is the author of Pynchon: The Voice of Ambiguity (1981) and American Fiction in the Cold War (1991) and is editor of Contemporary Literature. His interests include the politics of culture and environmental studies.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Modern Language Association of America
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 087352814X
• ISBN 13: 9780873528146
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 195
• Herausgeber: Schaub Thomas H.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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