Irritable Bodies and Postmodern Subjects in Pynchon, Puig, Volponi
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- ISBN 9780820497136
- Weight: 540g
- Dimensions: 160 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jan 2008
- Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Irritable Bodies and Postmodern Subjects in Pynchon, Puig, Volponi examines the recurrence of violent body figuration in the fiction of Pynchon, Puig, and Volponi, and also in the fiction of several other postmodern authors who published their literature during the last quarter of the twentieth century. Different as they may be, these authors engage in analogous representative strategies, as their prose is frequently and similarly disrupted by obscene images of wounded, torn, or deformed bodies. In their mix of irony and morbidity, in the hyper-reality of their depiction, in the unwarranted, apparently random nature of their occurrence, these shocking outbreaks exemplify an uncompromisingly «irritable» style which is one fundamental element of postmodernist representation. The author argues how through their fascination with obscene material, these writers address burning issues about the significance of the corporeal in a seemingly discourse-defined universe. This book is a great resource for literary graduate students who are interested in a comparative approach to contemporary literature.
The Author: Giorgio Mobili holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Washington University in St. Louis, and he teaches humanities and Italian at California State University, Fresno. His field of expertise is comparative (Italian, French, American, Latin-American) literature with an emphasis on twentieth-century fiction. He has published articles on both modern and contemporary authors.
