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基本説明
Examines experimental novels about travel by William Gaddis and Thomas Phynchon as precursors of innovative contemporary travel narratives, represented by Vollmann, among others.
Full Description
Crossing Boundaries examines experimental novels about travel by William Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon as precursors of innovative contemporary travel narratives, represented by the work of authors such as Bruce Chatwin, William Least Heat-Moon, and William T. Vollmann, among others. While these texts may be read as cultural criticism-functioning as a collective portrait of the world at a time when global space seems exhausted, dominated by multinational corporations and threatened with ecological devastation-they also serve as new Waldens .
Contents
Surveying the Territory Baedeker's BabelRecognitions Travels in Baedeker Land: Thomas Pynchon's V The Nomadic Text: Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines A Focused Wandering: Kenneth Lincoln and Al Logan Slagle's The Good Red Road Deep Travel: William Least Hear-Moon's PrairyErth A New Cartography: William T. Vollmann's The Atlas Wither the Women?
