“From Faraway California”: Thomas Pynchon’s Aesthetics of Space in the California Trilogy. Ali Dehdarirad

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2025.i25.1657

Keywords:

Thomas Pynchon, California, Geocriticism, Postmodernism, Urban Studies

Abstract

Review of “From Faraway California”: Thomas Pynchon’s Aesthetics of Space in the California Trilogy by Ali Dehdarirad.

Author Biography

  • Marco Petrelli, University of Pisa

    Assistant Professor (rtdB) of American Literature in the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics, University of Pisa

References

Didion, Joan. Slouching Towards Bethlehem. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968. ebook.

Elias, Amy J. and Christian Moraru, edited by. The Planetary Turn: Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2015.

Jarvis, Brian. Postmodern Cartographies: The Geographical Imagination in Contemporary American Culture. London: Pluto Press, 1998.

Pynchon, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49. London: Vintage, 1966.

Westphal, Bertrand. Geocriticism: Real and Fictional Spaces. Trans. Robert Tally Jr. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Published

2025-06-20

Issue

No. 25 (2025): Creating Trust through Transparency?

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Reviews

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