Głos i pismo: stylistyka encyklopedyczna w późnych powieściach Thomasa Pynchona
Voice and writing: stylistics encyclopedic in late novels by Thomas Pynchon

Author(s): Paweł Stachura
Subject(s): American Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: entropy; history; postmodernism; poetics; Thomas Pynchon
Summary/Abstract: Thomas Pynchon is an acclaimed American writer associated with postmodernism. His fiction offers complex insights into the social, cultural and political dimensions of American life, describing a variety of important phenomena, such as the invasion of entertainment industry, the expansion of new technologies, the strengthening of regimes within apparently democratic establishments. Pynchon dissects the linguistic mechanisms of communication and of shaping human consciousness.

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