Justin St. Clair

Justin St. Clair is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Alabama. He is the author of Sound and Aural Media in Postmodern Literature: Novel Listening (Routledge, 2013).

An Antidote to Orthodoxy

J. M. Tyree proposes a Pynchonian band of outsiders and misfits to resist all our current orthodoxies....

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LITERARY CRITICISM

Rereading Thomas Pynchon: Postmodernism and the Political Real

Two collections of essays "offer overlapping reconsiderations of Pynchon’s oeuvre and its politics."...

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LITERARY CRITICISM

Pynchon’s Postmodern Legacy, or Why Irony Is Still Relevant

A HALF CENTURY into his career, one thing is clear: Thomas Pynchon plays insider baseball. Whatever else he may be attempting, his novels always include a knowing nod to the already initiated. Bleeding Edge is no exception. This time, our guide ...

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