Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History

Thomas Pynchon helped pioneer the postmodern aesthetic. His formidable body of work challenges readers to think and perceive in ways that anticipate-with humor, insight, and cogency-much that has emerged in the field of literary theory over the past few decades. For David Cowart, Pynchon's most profound teachings are about history-history as myth, as rhetorical construct, as false consciousness, a...