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Dream Tonight of Peacock Tails marks the first in-depth examination of Pynchon's debut novel, which was immediately recognized as a breakthrough masterpiece. The eight essays collected in the volume provide both scholars and avid readers with new and original insights into a too-often underestimated work that, probably even more than Gravity's Rainbow, established Pynchon as one of the great masters of twentieth-century American literature. This book deliberately privileges a multidisciplinary and transnational approach, encompassing collaborations from a particularly international and diverse

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Psychological fiction, American. --- Life change events --- Men --- American psychological fiction --- American fiction --- Human males --- Human beings --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Masculinity

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Drawing widely on contemporary theory-particularly revisionist views of Freud such as those offered by Lacan and Kristeva-this volume ranges from the well-known Gothic horrors of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne to the popular fantasies of Stephen King and the postmodern visions of Kathy Acker. Special attention is paid to the issues of slavery and race in both black and white texts, including those by Ralph Ellison and William Faulkner. In the view of the editors and contributors, the Gothic is not so much a historical category as a mode of thought haunted by history, a part of suburba

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American fiction --- Women in literature. --- Plantation life in literature. --- Psychology in literature. --- Psychological fiction, American --- Women and literature --- Literature --- Psychology as a theme in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- History and criticism. --- Southern States --- In literature. --- Thematology --- American literature