Pynchon, Thomas
Review Review of David Cowart, Thomas Pynchon & the Dark Passages of History
... For Pynchon scholars some parts of this study may not, at first, seem ...of Thomas Pynchon; for specialists this is an opportunity to reacquaint themselves with one of the most lucid voices in ...
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Review Review of Evans Lansing Smith, Thomas Pynchon and the Postmodern Mythology of the Underworld, Modern American Literature: New Approaches vol. 62 (New York: Peter Lang, 2012)
... of Thomas Pynchon’s novels alone should supply enough material for a three-hundred-plus-page book on that narrow subject comes as a surprise, but Smith makes his case with stubborn ...to Pynchon scholars, ...
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Review of Thomas Pynchon & the Dark Passages of History by David Cowart and Pynchon and Relativity by Simon de Bourcier
... work, Thomas Pynchon & the Dark Passages of History firmly places Cowart in the realms of the political and the ...last Pynchon monograph, of note for its strong assertion of philosophical ...
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Review of The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon by Inger H Dalsgaard, Luc Herman, and Brian McHale (Eds )
... early Pynchon, including its draft versions at the Harry Ransom Center, into a biographical note and appraisal of ...paratexts; Thomas Hill Schaub’s expert elucidation of The Crying of Lot 49 [1966], ...
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“A Shorthand of Stars”: From John to Thomas Pynchon
... Springfield’s Pynchon House, and they are the work of John Pynchon, son of William Pynchon, ancestor of ...shorthand Pynchon used, and finds that, “His ‘system’ was evidently an arbitrary ...
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"The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon " (Review)
... on Pynchon emerge here from one particular source: not theoretical or methodological advances, but the availability of new bits of early ...‘Early Pynchon’ in terms of the ...writer. Thomas Schaub’s ...
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Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and the problems of 'metamodernism': post millennial post postmodernism?
... the Pynchon industry, referred to comically as ...in Pynchon, ‘[w]e will not see anything more real when we go out- side’ (Cowart, 1980: ...while Thomas Schaub devotes an entire book to Pynchon’s ...
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Review Review of Bleeding Edge, by Thomas Pynchon
... third Pynchon has published since 2006, will likely be received as one of his lighter ...expect Pynchon to have taken on the role of a soothsayer rather than a ...
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Thomas Pynchon and the scrambling of literary codes: Implications for organization theory
... (1999), Pynchon offers a genealogical literary account of this ...thinking. Pynchon does not provide solutions or give us suggestions. What Pynchon does though, is offer literary works that ...
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Review of Terrorism and Temporality In The Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo by James Gourley
... Although we are a mere decade into the new millennium, it is already clear that certain thematic areas are in a favoured critical period of “ascent”, as Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow might have it. Taking ...
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Article The Two V.s of Thomas Pynchon, or From Lippincott to Jonathan Cape and Beyond
... When V. appeared in bookstores in March of 1963, Thomas Pynchon had already become displeased with the published text. It was not the first time he had found himself unhappy about the content of his novel. ...
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Review of Thomas Pynchon and the American Counterculture by Joanna Freer
... chapter, Thomas Pynchon and the American Counterculture works on the civil rights movement and examines the potential matches between Newton's “revolutionary suicide” and the philosophies of the various ...
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Whose line is it anyway? Enlightenment, revolution, and ipseic ethics in the works of Thomas Pynchon
... which Pynchon has made reference on many occasions, mostly in relation to Orwell's novel, but also in the setting of Vineland – at this late stage in Foucault's career that one encounters his most significant ...
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"The driver's whip is an evil thing": enlightenment as mass enslavement in the works of Thomas Pynchon
... Furthermore, this middle-phase Enlightenment is further problematised in Pynchon because of the interdependence of the narrative layers. If, even at one level, a positivist ethical abolitionist teleology is ...
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Review Review of "How had it ever happened here?": A Constructivist Reading of Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and its Role in the Pynchon Canon, by Yvonne Klose (2012)
... to Pynchon criticism–an undergraduate, perhaps–where Klose's cataloguing of previous ideas alongside her own thorough, intriguing work on Maxwell's Demon and history in The Crying of Lot 49 will no doubt prove a ...
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Review Review of Simon Malpas and Andrew Taylor, Thomas Pynchon (Manchester University Press, 2013)
... Simon Malpas and Andrew Taylor’s book is a welcome addition to Manchester University Press’s ‘Contemporary American and Canadian Writers’ series. Previous entries in the series include such complex, experimental authors ...
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"It sure as hell looked like war": terrorism and the Cold War in Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and Don DeLillo's Underworld
... glance, Pynchon seems to contextualize anarchism within a tradeoff between the injustices of destruction, offset by the injustices that induce people to destroy; the material loss of innocence against the material ...
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The Quest for the Mechanical Muse: Thomas Pynchon and Science
... before Pynchon published the novel, "that the reclusive genius was walking the Mason-Dixon line" (Duyfhuizen ...bucktoothed Pynchon who appears, peering out of those high school photos to which ...
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Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace and twenty first century utopianism
... “nothing meant anything, that everything was abstract and endlessly interpretable” (2011, 155) before a transition to the revelation of a hidden substratum through a Jesuit figure (2011, 216-233), a key signifier of ...
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Thomas Pynchon, materialism and negative dialectics
... literature, particularly V., Gravity’s Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49 and Mason & Dixon. His novels have most frequently been type-cast as exemplary of the postmodern – saturated as they are with paranoia, ...
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