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Thomas Pynchon in Context

Inger H. Dalsgaard
Thomas Pynchon in Context Book PDF

Author : Inger H. Dalsgaard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108752701

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Thomas Pynchon in Context by Inger H. Dalsgaard Pdf

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.

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

Inger H. Dalsgaard,Luc Herman,Brian McHale
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Author : Inger H. Dalsgaard,Luc Herman,Brian McHale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 51,7 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.

Mason Dixon: Basketball Disasters

Claudia Mills
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Author : Claudia Mills
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375899607

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Mason Dixon: Basketball Disasters by Claudia Mills Pdf

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.

Thomas Pynchon

Tony Tanner
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Author : Tony Tanner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000649925

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Thomas Pynchon by Tony Tanner Pdf

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.

The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon
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Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 51,7 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.

Against the Day

Thomas Pynchon
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Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1584 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594667

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Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon Pdf

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

Thomas Pynchon
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Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594636

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Vineland by Thomas Pynchon Pdf

“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

Thomas Pynchon
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Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594650

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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

Joanna Freer
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Author : Joanna Freer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781108474467

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The New Pynchon Studies by Joanna Freer Pdf

The essays in this collection are at the forefront of Pynchon studies, representing distinctively twenty-first century approaches to his work.

Inherent Vice

Thomas Pynchon
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Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 52,8 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.

A Gravity's Rainbow Companion

Steven C. Weisenburger
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Author : Steven C. Weisenburger
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,6 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."

Slow Learner

Thomas Pynchon
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Author : Thomas Pynchon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101594612

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Slow Learner by Thomas Pynchon Pdf

"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 American Counterculture

Joanna Freer
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Author : Joanna Freer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107076051

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Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture by Joanna Freer Pdf

This volume explores the complex fiction of Thomas Pynchon within the context of 1960s counterculture.

The Lime Twig

John Hawkes
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Author : John Hawkes
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811200655

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The Lime Twig by John Hawkes Pdf

But it would be unfair to the reader to reveal what happens when a gang of professional crooks gets wind of the scheme and moves to muscle in on this bettors' dream of a long-odds situation. Worked out with all the meticulous detail, terror, and suspense of a nightmare, the tale is, on one level, comparable to a Graham Greene thriller; on another, it explores a group of people, their relationships fears, and loves. For as Leslie A. Fiedler says in his introduction, "John Hawkes.. . makes terror rather than love the center of his work, knowing all the while, of course, that there can be no terror without the hope for love and love's defeat . . . ."

Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon

Molly Hite
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Author : Molly Hite
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814253261

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Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon by Molly Hite Pdf

Somewhere near the beginning of this incisive critical study of perhaps the most elusive and, to some minds, structurally disordered of living writers, Molly Hite notes that the idea of order has always fascinated novelists. She attributes this to the genre's being a hybrid, committed as it is, on the one hand, to a rigorous teleology in which events exist for the sake of resolution, and, on the other, to imitating a world that stubbornly refuses to add up. The teleological impetus of narrative, she notes, reflects "a God-ordered universe," while the mimetic tendency describes "a man-centered world." And because the two world views are irreconcilable, they pose a dilemma-the dilemma that Pynchon treats satirically in his three novels: that the alternative to theology is paranoia. In confronting his characters with evidence that either a transcendent power imposes order on the world, or that, in the absence of such a power, all order is illusory, Pynchon parodies a postromantic attitude that takes these extremes as exhaustive. The worlds that Pynchon projects in his three novels-"V., The Crying of Lot 49, " and "Gravity's Rainbow"-are complex and difficult to negotiate; but they are not, Dr. Hite insists, incoherent. And even when they are most bizarre and surreal, they are familiar; for they evoke a multilayered reality in which multiple means of putting things together manage to coexist without ever resolving into a single, definitive system of organization. By placing thematic concerns within the context of Pynchon's experiments with narrative structure and voice, and in this way helping to correct the imbalance that has tended to minimize such formal features, Dr. Hite leads to an increased understanding of Pynchon's spectacle of a postreligious society committed to a vision of apocalypse. Molly Hite is assistant professor of English literature at Cornell University.