{"id":400,"date":"2021-08-24T14:47:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T14:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?post_type=book&#038;p=400"},"modified":"2021-09-29T16:45:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T20:45:55","slug":"vineland-reread","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/book\/vineland-reread\/","title":{"rendered":"Vineland Reread"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Peter Coviello, PhD \u201998<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Publishers Weekly<\/em> calls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/53214542-vineland-reread\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Coviello\u2019s treatise on the novel <em>Vineland<\/em><\/a>, by fellow Cornellian Thomas Pynchon \u201959\u2014in which eccentric characters who came of age in the 1960s clash with the mores of the Reaganite 1980s\u2014a \u201cpenetrating and nuanced work of literary criticism.\u201d As Coviello, an English professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago, admits: \u201c<em>Vineland<\/em> is no one\u2019s most beloved Pynchon novel; on a lot of days it\u2019s not even mine. 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