Bloomsbury Academic Thomas Pynchon and the Digital Humanities: Computational Approaches to Style (New Horizons in Contemporary Writing)

Product Description The first book-length analysis of Pynchons style, this book uses methodologies such as computational analysis, drawn from the Digital Humanities, to reveal previously unknown stylistic trends in this much-studied authors oeuvre. In doing so, it challenges critical assumptions regarding supposedly Pynchonesque stylistic features and presents the most extensive description thus far of Pynchons late style. It examines a range of texts from Pynchon's oeuvre, including Gravity's Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49 and Mason & Dixon as well as contextualising his work alongside that of other key writers such as Toni Morrison, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo and Stephen King. About the Author Dr Erik Ketzan is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cologne Institute for Digital Humanities and Visiting Fellow at King s College London. Erik previously worked as an academic researcher at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language then completed a PhD in English/Digital Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London.