Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales

Fables for Ecocriticism

Keita Hatooka (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

166 Seiten

2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-5587-5 (ISBN)

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Through examining case studies of animal representation in Thomas Pynchon’s works, Hatooka illuminates how radically and imaginatively the legendary novelist depicts his empathy for nonhuman beings and conducts conducting a comparative study of Pynchon’s narratives and his contemporary documentarians and thinkers.

Throughout his works, Thomas Pynchon uses various animal characters to narrate fables that are vital to postmodernism and ecocriticism. Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales: Fables for Ecocriticism examines case studies of animal representation in Pynchon’s texts, such as alligators in the sewer in V.; the alligator purse in Bleeding Edge; dolphins in the Miami Seaquarium in The Crying of Lot 49; dodoes, pigs, and octopuses in Gravity’s Rainbow; Bigfoot and Godzilla in Vineland and Inherent Vice; and preternatural dogs and mythical worms in Mason & Dixon and Against the Day. Through this exploration, Keita Hatooka illuminates how radically and imaginatively the legendary novelist depicts his empathy for nonhuman beings that live somewhere between the civilized and uncivilized, the tamed and untamed, and the preternatural and supernatural. Furthermore, by conducting a comparative study of Pynchon’s narratives and his contemporary documentarians and thinkers, Thomas Pynchon’s Animal Tales leads readers to draw great lessons from the fables that Pynchon offers to stimulate our ecocritical thought for tomorrow.

Keita Hatooka is professor of adaptation studies in the Graduate School of Science and Technology at Meiji University.

Introduction: For Whom the Fable Says: Pynchon, Lyotard, and Carson

Chapter 1. Who Caught the Blood of the Alligator? V.

Chapter 2. The Dolphin Jumped over the Moon: The Crying of Lot 49

Chapter 3. What We Talk about When We Talk about Extinction: Gravity’s Rainbow

Chapter 4. Who’s Afraid of the Big Badass? Vineland and Inherent Vice

Chapter 5. Sonnets for a Multispecies Cradle: Mason & Dixon and Against the Day

Chapter 6. The Lady with the Alligator Purse: Bleeding Edge and Jonathan Safran Foer

Conclusion: And Then There Were None (Except for Nature on the Screen): Documentary Guys, Grizzly Man, and Thomas Pynchon

Erscheinungsdatum	26.08.2022
Reihe/Serie	Ecocritical Theory and Practice
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 238 mm
Gewicht	426 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-7936-5587-1 / 1793655871
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-5587-5 / 9781793655875
Zustand	Neuware