Thomas Pynchon in Context2019

"Introduction Inger H. Dalsgaard Thomas Pynchon has long had a place in the pantheon of Great American Writers. His status lies in the scope of his work - the number of publications, the prodigious detail and expansiveness of his topics - as well as the sheer quality of his writing, all of which quickly led to comparisons with Herman Melville and James Joyce. His writing is widely taught (as part of required literature survey courses at universities, for example), and remains the subject of many scholarly articles, dissertations and monographs not just in the United States and other English-speaking countries, as one might expect, but also across Europe and Asia. According to the database of publications compiled on Vheissu.net, more than 400 doctoral dissertations have been accepted and...