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Thomas Pynchon in Context

Author : Inger H. Dalsgaard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108752705
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)

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Book Synopsis Thomas Pynchon in Context by : Inger H. Dalsgaard

Download or read book Thomas Pynchon in Context written by Inger H. Dalsgaard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Pynchon in Context guides students, scholars and other readers through the global scope and prolific imagination of Pynchon's challenging, canonical work, providing the most up-to-date and authoritative scholarly analyses of his writing. This book is divided into three parts. The first, 'Times and Places', sets out the history and geographical contexts both for the setting of Pynchon's novels and his own life. The second, 'Culture, Politics and Society', examines twenty important and recurring themes which most clearly define Pynchon's writing - ranging from ideas in philosophy and the sciences to humor and pop culture. The final part, 'Approaches and Readings', outlines and assesses ways to read and understand Pynchon. Consisting of Forty-four essays written by some of the world's leading scholars, this volume outlines the most important contexts for understanding Pynchon's writing and helps readers interpret and reference his literary work.

A Gravity's Rainbow Companion

Author : Steven C. Weisenburger
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820337641
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis A Gravity's Rainbow Companion by : Steven C. Weisenburger

Download or read book A Gravity's Rainbow Companion written by Steven C. Weisenburger and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adding some 20 percent to the original content, this is a completely updated edition of Steven Weisenburger's indispensable guide to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Weisenburger takes the reader page by page, often line by line, through the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes, and puns around which Pynchon wove his story. Weisenburger fully annotates Pynchon's use of languages ranging from Russian and Hebrew to such subdialects of English as 1940s street talk, drug lingo, and military slang as well as the more obscure terminology of black magic, Rosicrucianism, and Pavlovian psychology. The Companion also reveals the underlying organization of Gravity's Rainbow--how the book's myriad references form patterns of meaning and structure that have eluded both admirers and critics of the novel. The Companion is keyed to the pages of the principal American editions of Gravity's Rainbow: Viking/Penguin (1973), Bantam (1974), and the special, repaginated Penguin paperback (2000) honoring the novel as one of twenty "Great Books of the Twentieth Century."

The Crying of Lot 49

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101594608
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Crying of Lot 49 written by Thomas Pynchon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy, meets some extremely interesting characters and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

Author : Inger H. Dalsgaard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521769744
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon by : Inger H. Dalsgaard

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon written by Inger H. Dalsgaard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.

Against the Day

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101594667
Total Pages : 1584 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Against the Day written by Thomas Pynchon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 1584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Washington Post Best Book of the Year Spanning the era between the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the Day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it’s their lives that pursue them.

Vineland

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101594632
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Vineland written by Thomas Pynchon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Later than usual one summer morning in 1984 . . .” On California’s fog-hung North Coast, the enchanted redwood groves of Vineland County harbor a wild assortment of sixties survivors and refugees from the “Nixonian Reaction,” still struggling with the consequences of their past lives. Aging hippie freak Zoyd Wheeler is revving up for his annual act of televised insanity when news reaches that his old nemesis, sinister federal agent Brock Vond, has come storming into Vineland at the head of a heavily armed Justice Department strike force. Zoyd instantly disappears underground, but not before dispatching his teenage daughter Prairie on a dark odyssey into her secret, unspeakable past. . . . Freely combining disparate elements from American popular culture—spy thrillers, ninja potboilers, TV soap operas, sci-fi fantasies—Vineland emerges as what Salman Rushdie has called in The New York Times Book Review “that rarest of birds: a major political novel about what America has been doing to itself, to its children, all these many years.”

Gravity's Rainbow

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101594659
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Gravity's Rainbow written by Thomas Pynchon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1974 National Book Award “A screaming comes across the sky. . .” A few months after the Germans’ secret V-2 rocket bombs begin falling on London, British Intelligence discovers that a map of the city pinpointing the sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implications of this discovery will launch Slothrop on an amazing journey across war-torn Europe, fleeing an international cabal of military-industrial superpowers, in search of the mysterious Rocket 00000, through a wildly comic extravaganza that has been hailed in The New Republic as “the most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II.”

The New Pynchon Studies

Author : Joanna Freer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108474462
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The New Pynchon Studies written by Joanna Freer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection are at the forefront of Pynchon studies, representing distinctively twenty-first century approaches to his work.

Thomas Pynchon

Author : Tony Tanner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100064992X
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Pynchon written by Tony Tanner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Pynchon is now recognized as a major contemporary novelist and perhaps the most important American writer since Melville. His work is both richly imaginative and amazingly erudite and can be compared, in its complexity, linguistic playfulness and experimentation and wealth of allusion, to the work of James Joyce. Aspects of history, psychology, technology and science, cultural and political movements, problems of identity and society and the status and function of fiction and narrative in the modern world are all dramatized with extraordinary wit and power. Tony Tanner provides a brief, comprehensive introduction to his work. Against the background of Pynchon the man, this book, originally published in 1982, examines in detail his early short stories (some of which are not easily accessible) and offers a guide to the reading of his novels, V., The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity’s Rainbow. Many of Pynchon’s recurrent themes, from entropy and information theory to his interest in the operations and divisions of power in the world since the Second World War, are considered. Finally, Tony Tanner places Pynchon and his work in a broader cultural and literary context.

Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture

Author : Joanna Freer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107076056
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture written by Joanna Freer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the complex fiction of Thomas Pynchon within the context of 1960s counterculture.

Inherent Vice

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101594675
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Inherent Vice written by Thomas Pynchon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon—Private eye Doc Sportello surfaces, occasionally, out of a marijuana haze to watch the end of an era In this lively yarn, Thomas Pynchon, working in an unaccustomed genre that is at once exciting and accessible, provides a classic illustration of the principle that if you can remember the sixties, you weren't there. It's been a while since Doc Sportello has seen his ex- girlfriend. Suddenly she shows up with a story about a plot to kidnap a billionaire land developer whom she just happens to be in love with. It's the tail end of the psychedelic sixties in L.A., and Doc knows that "love" is another of those words going around at the moment, like "trip" or "groovy," except that this one usually leads to trouble. Undeniably one of the most influential writers at work today, Pynchon has penned another unforgettable book.

Slow Learner

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101594616
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Slow Learner written by Thomas Pynchon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exhilarating spectacle of greatness discovering its powers." - New Republic "Funny and wise enough to charm the gravity from a rainbow...All five of the pieces have unusual narrative vigor and inventiveness." - New York Times Compiling five short stories originally written between 1959 and 1964, Slow Learner showcases Thomas Pynchon’s writing before the publication of his first novel V. The stories compiled here are “The Small Rain,” “Low-lands,” “Entropy,” “Under the Rose,” and “The Secret Integration,” along with an introduction by Pynchon himself that Time magazine calls his "first public gesture toward autobiography."

Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History

Author : David Cowart
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820337099
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History written by David Cowart and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Pynchon helped pioneer the postmodern aesthetic. His formidable body of work challenges readers to think and perceive in ways that anticipate--with humor, insight, and cogency--much that has emerged in the field of literary theory over the past few decades. For David Cowart, Pynchon's most profound teachings are about history--history as myth, as rhetorical construct, as false consciousness, as prologue, as mirror, and as seedbed of national and literary identities. In one encyclopedic novel after another, Pynchon has reconceptualized historical periods that he sees as culturally definitive. Examining Pynchon's entire body of work, Cowart offers an engaging, metahistorical reading of V.; an exhaustive analysis of the influence of German culture in Pynchon's early work, with particular emphasis on Gravity's Rainbow; and a critical spectroscopy of those dark stars, Mason & Dixon and Against the Day. He defends the California fictions The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland, and Inherent Vice as roman fleuve chronicling the decade in which the American tapestry began to unravel. Cowart ends his study by considering Pynchon's place in literary history. 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. Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History offers a deft analysis of the problems of history as engaged by our greatest living novelist and argues for the continuity of Pynchon's historical vision.

A Companion to The Crying of Lot 49

Author : J. Kerry Grant
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820332089
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to The Crying of Lot 49 by : J. Kerry Grant

Download or read book A Companion to The Crying of Lot 49 written by J. Kerry Grant and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains more than 500 notes keyed to the "2006 Harper Perennial Modern Classics", the "1986 Harper Perennial Library", and the 1967 Bantam editions. This edition adds quotations and paraphrases drawn from criticism published since 1994. It includes more than fifty annotations that have been added and eighty annotations that have been expanded.

Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender

Author : Ali Chetwynd
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082035399X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender written by Ali Chetwynd and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Pynchon’s fiction has been considered masculinist, misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem. To the present day, deep critical divisions persist as to whether Pynchon’s representations of women are sexist, feminist, or reflective of a more general misanthropy, whether his writing of sex is boorishly pornographic or effectually transgressive, whether queer identities are celebrated or mocked, and whether his departures from realist convention express masculinist elitism or critique the gendering of genre. Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender reframes these debates. As the first book-length investigation of Pynchon’s writing to put the topics of sex and gender at its core, it moves beyond binary debates about whether to see Pynchon as liberatory or conservative, instead examining how his preoccupation with sex and gender conditions his fiction’s whole worldview. The essays it contains, which cumulatively address all of Pynchon’s novels from V. (1963) to Bleeding Edge (2013), investigate such topics as the imbrication of gender and power, sexual abuse and the writing of sex, the gendering of violence, and the shifting representation of the family. Providing a wealth of new approaches to the centrality of sex and gender in Pynchon’s work, the collection opens up new avenues for Pynchon studies as a whole.

Pictures Showing what Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow

Author : Zak Smith
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 0977312798
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Pictures Showing what Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow written by Zak Smith and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gravity's Rainbow Illustrated: One Picture for Every Page features the work of an Ivy League-educated, punk-rock, porn-star visual artist who has created a drawing for every page of a novel that is widely considered to be the most difficult work of literature ever produced in English.

Mason Dixon: Basketball Disasters

Author : Claudia Mills
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 037589960X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)

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Book Synopsis Mason Dixon: Basketball Disasters by : Claudia Mills

Download or read book Mason Dixon: Basketball Disasters written by Claudia Mills and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-01-10 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's the third entry in Claudia Mills' charming middle-grade series. Mason Dixon survived the school choir. He survived adopting his now-beloved dog named, uh, Dog. But now he faces his biggest challenge yet: joining the local basketball team. Not by choice, of course. Not only do his parents encourage it, but his dad even volunteers to be his coach. Now, with his best pal Brody and a team of misfits even worse at basketball than him (if that's possible), Mason must try to rally to beat his arch-rival, the school bully Dunk. Just another day-in-the-life of a disaster-prone fourth grader.