All Outputs (11)

The Devil's Party: Metal and Literature (2022)
Book Chapter
Thomas, S. (in press). The Devil's Party: Metal and Literature. In R. Durkin, P. Dayan, A. Englund, & K. Clausius (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature (406-415). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367237288

New Literary Television (2021)
Book
Keeble, A., & Thomas, S. (Eds.). (2021). New Literary Television. [Special Issue: Post45]

Blood on the Tracks: Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, and (Un)popular Music from Britney to Black Metal (2019)
Journal Article
Thomas, S. (2019). Blood on the Tracks: Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, and (Un)popular Music from Britney to Black Metal. Orbit: A Journal of American Literature, 7(1), 1-55. https://doi.org/10.16995/orbit.788

This article explores Pynchon’s allusions to popular (and unpopular) music in Bleeding Edge (2013). I argue that Pynchon’s engagement with music can not only be understood in terms of its periodizing function but also as an intricate practice of hist... Read More about Blood on the Tracks: Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, and (Un)popular Music from Britney to Black Metal.

Yours in Revolution: Retrofitting Carlos the Jackal (2013)
Journal Article
Thomas, S. (2013). Yours in Revolution: Retrofitting Carlos the Jackal. Culture Unbound, 5, 451-478. https://doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.135451

This paper explores the representation of ‘Carlos the Jackal’, the one-time ‘World’s Most Wanted Man’ and ‘International Face of Terror’ – primarily in cin-ema but also encompassing other forms of popular culture and aspects of Cold War policy-making... Read More about Yours in Revolution: Retrofitting Carlos the Jackal.

The Gaucho Sells Out: Thomas Pynchon and Argentina (2013)
Journal Article
Thomas, S. (2013). The Gaucho Sells Out: Thomas Pynchon and Argentina. Western civilization, 40(1), 53-85. https://doi.org/10.1353/saf.2013.0003

In chapter seven of Pynchon's first novel—one of the "Stencilized" sections of the book in which the avatars and emanations of the mysterious V. are traced out through moments of historical crisis—we are taken on a lavish detour to Florence, circa 18... Read More about The Gaucho Sells Out: Thomas Pynchon and Argentina.

Review of Reaganism, Thatcherism and the Social Novel by Colin Hutchinson. (2011)
Journal Article
Thomas, S. (2011). Review of Reaganism, Thatcherism and the Social Novel by Colin Hutchinson. Modern Language Review, 106(1), 253-254

Outtakes and Outrage: The Means and Ends of Suicide Terror (2011)
Journal Article
Thomas, S. (2011). Outtakes and Outrage: The Means and Ends of Suicide Terror. MFS: Modern Fiction Studies, 57(3), 425-449. https://doi.org/10.1353/mfs.2011.0062

Metković to Mostar: Pynchon and the Balkans (2010)
Journal Article
Thomas, S. (2010). Metković to Mostar: Pynchon and the Balkans. Textual Practice, 24(2), 353-377. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502360903422758

Review of Slavoj Žižek's In Defense of Lost Causes. (2008)
Newspaper / Magazine
Thomas, S. (2008). Review of Slavoj Žižek's In Defense of Lost Causes

Local and Global Antagonisms: Three Approaches to the Contemporary Novel. (2007)
Journal Article
Thomas, S. (2007). Local and Global Antagonisms: Three Approaches to the Contemporary Novel. Textual Practice, 21(4), 181-191. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502360701642565

Pynchon and the Political (2007)
Book
Thomas, S. (2007). Pynchon and the Political. Routledge

Thomas Pynchon's writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form of postmodern fiction. It is characterized as genre-defying and enigmatic, as a series of complex and esoteric language games. This study attempts to demonstrate, however, that an... Read More about Pynchon and the Political.