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The Ruins of Urban Modernity rises to the challenge presented by Pynchon's spatial imaginary, making a brilliant case for reading Against the Day as an urban novel offering vital insights into the contradictory geographies of modernity. * Hsuan L. Hsu, Professor of English, University of California, Davis, USA * In the vast Pynchon scholarship, the city has remained an underrepresented subject. The Ruins of Urban Modernity gives Pynchon's treatment of urban spatiality the attention it deserves in a thorough book-length study of Against the Day. Utku Mogultay shows how in Pynchon's prose, a distinct ruin aesthetic gestures simultaneously toward complex layers of urban memory and toward unwritten future cities-including the ones we live in today. * Lieven Ameel, Senior Research Fellow, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, Finland, and President of the Association for Literary Urban Studies * Utku Mogultay is a very learned critic who persuades us that Pynchon's Against the Day is not just zany and deliberately obscure. * Modern Language Review *

The Ruins of Urban Modernity rises to the challenge presented by Pynchon's spatial imaginary, making a brilliant case for reading Against the Day as an urban novel offering vital insights into the contradictory geographies of modernity. * Hsuan L. Hsu, Professor of English, University of California, Davis, USA * In the vast Pynchon scholarship, the city has remained an underrepresented subject. The Ruins of Urban Modernity gives Pynchon's treatment of urban spatiality the attention it deserves in a thorough book-length study of Against the Day. Utku Mogultay shows how in Pynchon's prose, a distinct ruin aesthetic gestures simultaneously toward complex layers of urban memory and toward unwritten future cities-including the ones we live in today. * Lieven Ameel, Senior Research Fellow, Turku Institute for Advanced Studies, Finland, and President of the Association for Literary Urban Studies *

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Utku Mogultay is an independent scholar based in Berlin, Germany. He received his PhD from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

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