A Gravity S Rainbow Companion

Author : Steven C. Weisenburger
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820337647

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A Gravity's Rainbow Companion by Steven C. Weisenburger Pdf

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 Weisenburger takes the reader page by page, often line by line, through the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes, and puns around which Pynchon wove his story.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."

Author : Steven Weisenburger
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820310263

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A Gravity's Rainbow Companion by Steven Weisenburger Pdf

Steven provides a page-by-page, often line-by-line, guide to the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes and puns around which Pynchon wove his novel. This is a guide book to one of the most important, and intractable, literary works of our time.

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594650

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Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon Pdf

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.”

Author : Inger H. Dalsgaard,Luc Herman,Brian McHale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521769747

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The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon by Inger H. Dalsgaard,Luc Herman,Brian McHale Pdf

This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.

Author : Luc Herman,Steven C. Weisenburger
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820345956

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Gravity's Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom by Luc Herman,Steven C. Weisenburger Pdf

Herman and Weisenburger put the novel's abiding questions about freedom in context with sixties struggles against war, restricted speech rights, ethno-racial oppression, environmental degradation, and subtle new means of social and psychological control.

Author : Zak Smith
Publisher : Tin House Books
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780977312795

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Pictures Showing what Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow by Zak Smith Pdf

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.

Author : J. Kerry Grant
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820322513

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A Companion to V. by J. Kerry Grant Pdf

To the uninitiated, Thomas Pynchon’s V. seems to defy comprehension with its open-ended and fragmented narrative, huge cast of characters (some 150 of them), and wide range of often obscure references. J. Kerry Grant’s Companion to “V.” takes us through the novel chapter by chapter, breaking through its daunting surface by summarizing events and clarifying Pynchon’s many allusions. The Companion draws extensively from existing critical and explicative work on V. to suggest the range of interpretations that the novel can support. The hundreds of notes that comprise the Companion are keyed to the three most widely cited editions of V. Most notes are interpretive, but some also provide historical and cultural contexts or help to resurrect other nuances of meaning. Because it does not constitute a particular “reading” of, or “take” on, the novel, the Companion will appeal to a wide range of users. Rather than attempting to make final sense of the novel, the Companion exposes and demystifies Pynchon’s intent to play with our conventional attitudes about fiction.

Author : Douglas Fowler
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : Ardis Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015002138512

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A Reader's Guide to Gravity's Rainbow by Douglas Fowler Pdf

Author : Steven Weisenburger
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820316687

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Fables of Subversion by Steven Weisenburger Pdf

Drawing on more than thirty novels by nineteen writers, Fables of Subversion is both a survey of mid-twentieth century American fiction and a study of how these novels challenged the conventions of satire. Steven Weisenburger focuses on the rise of a radically subversive mode of satire from 1930 to 1980. This postmodern satire, says Weisenburger, stands in crucial opposition to corrective, normative satire, which has served a legitimizing function by generating, through ridicule, a consensus on values. Weisenburger argues that satire in this generative mode does not participate in the oppositional, subversive work of much twentieth-century art. Chapters focus on theories of satire, early subversions of satiric conventions by Nathanael West, Flannery O'Connor, and John Hawkes, the flowering of "Black Humor" fictions of the sixties, and the forms of political and encyclopedic satire prominent throughout the period. Many of the writers included here, such as Vladimir Nabokov, William Gaddis, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Coover, and Thomas Pynchon, are acknowledged masters of contemporary humor. Others, such as Mary McCarthy, Chester Himes, James Purdy, Charles Wright, and Ishmael Reed, have not previously been considered in this context. Posing a seminal challenge to existing theories of satire, Fables of Subversion explores the iconoclastic energies of the new satires as a driving force in late modern and post-modern novel writing.

Author : J. Kerry Grant
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820332086

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A Companion to The Crying of Lot 49 by J. Kerry Grant Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594643

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Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon Pdf

"A novel that is as moving as it is cerebral, as poignant as it is daring." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times "Mason & Dixon - like Huckleberry Finn, like Ulysses - is one of the great novels about male friendship in anybody's literature." - John Leonard, The Nation Charles Mason (1728–1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733–1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as reimagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major caffeine abuse. Unreflectively entangled in crimes of demarcation, Mason & Dixon take us along on a grand tour of the Enlightenment’s dark hemisphere, from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back to England, into the shadowy yet redemptive turns of their later lives, through incongruities in conscience, parallaxes of personality, tales of questionable altitude told and intimated by voices clamoring not to be lost. Along the way they encounter a plentiful cast of characters, including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and Samuel Johnson, as well as a Chinese feng shui master, a Swedish irredentist, a talking dog, and a robot duck. The quarrelsome, daring, mismatched pair—Mason as melancholy and Gothic as Dixon is cheerful and pre-Romantic—pursues a linear narrative of irregular lives, observing, and managing to participate in the many occasions of madness presented them by the Age of Reason.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Chelsea House Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015011696500

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Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow by Harold Bloom Pdf

A collection of critical essays on Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" arranged in chronological order of publication.

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594605

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The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon Pdf

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.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438116112

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Thomas Pynchon by Harold Bloom Pdf

Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of Thomas Pynchon.

Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594674

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Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Pdf

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.