The Ruins of Urban Modernity: Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day

by Utku Mogultay

Book Overview

The Ruins of Urban Modernity examines Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day through the critical lens of urban spatiality.

Navigating the textual landscapes of New York, Venice, London, Los Angeles and the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Against the Day reimagines urban modernity at the turn of the 20th century. As the complex novel collapses and rebuilds anew the spatial imaginaries underlying the popular fictions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501339508
• ISBN13: 9781501339509
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"