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  • "It sure's hell looked like war": Terrorism and the Cold War in Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day and Don DeLillo’s Underworld

    Author(s):
    Martin Paul Eve (see profile)
    Date:
    2014
    Group(s):
    LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American
    Subject(s):
    American literature
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    thomas pynchon, Don DeLillo, terrorism
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6HC77
    Abstract:
    This piece explores the resonances between the depiction of the Cold War and the War Against Terror in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Don DeLillo's Underworld.
    Metadata:
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    Published as:
    Book chapter
    Publisher:
    Wydawnictwo KUL
    Author/Editor:
    Zofia Kolbuszewska
    Book Title:
    Thomas Pynchon and the (De)vices of Global (Post)modernity
    Start Page:
    39
    End Page:
    53
    Status:
    Published
    License:
    All Rights Reserved

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