Böcker av David Cowart

Increasingly, literary texts have attached themselves to their sources in seemingly parasitic--but, more accurately, symbiotic--dependence. It is this kind of mutuality that Cowart examines in his wide-ranging and richly provocative study.

Cowart argues that Pynchon has always understood the facticity of historical narrative and the historicity of storytelling--not to mention the relations of both story and history to myth. He offers a deft analysis of the problems of history as engaged by Pynchon and argues for the continuity of his historical vision.

Discussing Don DeLillo's 13 novels, including ""Cosmopolis"", David Cowart here explores the ways in which DeLillo's art anticipates, parallels and contests ideas that have become the common currency of post-structuralist theory.