Books by 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.