{"product_id":"gravitys-rainbow-domination-and-freedom-paperback","title":"Gravity's Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLuc Herman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSteven Weisenburger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen published in 1973, \u003ci\u003eGravity's Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e expanded our sense of what the novel could be. Pynchon's extensive references to modern science, history, and culture challenged any reader, while his prose bent the rules for narrative art and his satirical practices taunted U.S. obscenity and pornography statutes. His writing thus enacts freedom even as the book's great theme is domination: humanity's diminished \"chances for freedom\" in a global military-industrial system birthed and set on its feet in World War II. Its symbol: the V-2 rocket. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Gravity's Rainbow,\" Domination, and Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e broadly situates Pynchon's novel in \"long sixties\" history, revealing a fiction deeply of and about its time. Herman and Weisenburger put the novel's abiding questions about freedom in context with sixties struggles against war, restricted speech rights, ethno-racial oppression, environmental degradation, and subtle new means of social and psychological control. They show the text's close indebtedness to critiques of domination by key postwar thinkers such as Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, and Hannah Arendt. They detail equally powerful ways that sixties countercultural practices--free-speech resistance played out in courts, campuses, city streets, and raucously satirical underground presswork--provide a clearer bearing on Pynchon's own satirical practices and their implicit criticisms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf the System has jacketed humanity in a total domination, may not a solitary individual still assert freedom? Or has the System captured all--even supposedly immune elites--in an irremediable dominion? Reading Pynchon's main characters and storylines, this study realizes a darker \u003ci\u003eGravity's Rainbow\u003c\/i\u003e than critics have been willing to see.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLuc Herman (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e LUC HERMAN is a professor of English and narrative theory at the University of Antwerp. He is the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eHandbook of Narrative Analysis\u003c\/i\u003e with Bart Vervaeck and the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon\u003c\/i\u003e with Inger Dalsgaard and Brian McHale. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven Weisenburger (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e STEVEN WEISENBURGER is Mossiker Chair in Humanities and chair of the English Department at Southern Methodist University. His books include \u003ci\u003eFables of Subversion\u003c\/i\u003e (Georgia) and \u003ci\u003eModern Medea\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 15, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722447130687,"sku":"9780820345956","price":71.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/02d156e038feb66d4ccaba4bdb25794b.webp?v=1765095794","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/gravitys-rainbow-domination-and-freedom-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}