...Steven Weisenburger William M. Plater The Grim Phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon . Bloomington and London: Indiana University Press, 1978. xvii + 268 pp. $12.50. © 1979 University of Washington 1979 88 REVIEWS sistence...

... to be that Thomas Pynchon’s metaphysical orientation is a secular one. When mysteries, miracles, uncertainties, and para- doxes are rampant in the major work of a novelist versed as none before him in the arcana of science and bureaucracy, it is natural enough to turn to Godel’s Theorem, Einstein’s...

... and London: Yale University Press, 1980. xv + 32 l pp. $20.00. Irwin, John T. American Hieroglyphics: The Symbol of the Egyptian Hieroglyphics in the American Renaissance. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980. xii + 371 pp. $19.50. Stark, John 0. Pynchon’s Fictions: Thomas Pynchon...

... and punk; and the publication, all in that same year, of such postmod- ernist literary landmarks as Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, J. G. Ballard’s Crash, and Don DeLillo’s Great Jones Street. In or about 1973, human character changed — anyway, American culture did, according to Killen. My...

... + 371 pp. $19.50. Stark, John 0. Pynchon’s Fictions: Thomas Pynchon and the Literature of Infoniiution. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1980. ix + 183 pp. $12.95. ENGLISH Bonney, William W. Thorns and Arabesques: Contexts for Conrad’s Fiction. Baltimore...

... tradition seem to want to stop history at about 1965, roughly when the modernist city, modern architecture, and the modernist literary tradition began to unravel amid a series of crises. Lehan prefigures that shift in a superb reading of Thomas Pynchon’s Crying of Lot 49, in which he persuasively...

... (in a masterful discussion of Orwell and his influence on the later novel of paranoia in Thomas Pynchon and others) poses the question in a more far-reaching way and implies that reading had better end in conviction: In 1984 the atheist Orwell believes in the power of the state and its surveillance powers...

... Stefano . 2014 . The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow” to Roberto Bolaño’s “2666.” New York : Bloomsbury . Foden Giles . 2011 . “ Open City by Teju Cole .” Guardian , August 17 . https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/aug/17/open-city-teju-cole-review...

... revisionary politics as both the occasion and the cause for such rewrites to have become dominant after 1966. They have also demonstrated that postmodern authors from John Barth and Thomas Pynchon to Woody Allen and Mark Leyner (an American Jasper Fforde) have no problem treating—quite “authentically...

... and install them in a normative framework” while remaining open and adaptive to new experience (2). One example is the satirical mode in which Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Pynchon, and others have poked holes in the pomposity of American civil religion, an Enlightenment handiwork that borrows from...

... stature as errors among so many others. Pynchon for Pyncheon (p. 157) seems egre- gious for a scholar of American literature, as does neither . . . or for a grammarian (p. 163). Most troubling are the substantive errors, as when my friend Edward Rosenberry, the Melville scholar, becomes...

... in an Antiblack World . New York : New York University Press . Lavery Grace . 2020 . “ Trans Realism, Psychoanalytic Practice, and the Rhetoric of Technique .” Critical Inquiry 46 , no. 4 : 719 – 44 . McClure John A. 2007 . Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon...

... features of postmodern metahistorical fi ction, including in her fi nal chapter an extended discussion of John Barth’s Sot-Weed Factor and Thomas Pynchon’s Mason and Dixonn as representative early and late versions of the postmodern metahistorical imagination. But her fi rst concern is the importance...

... features of postmodern metahistorical fi ction, including in her fi nal chapter an extended discussion of John Barth’s Sot-Weed Factor and Thomas Pynchon’s Mason and Dixonn as representative early and late versions of the postmodern metahistorical imagination. But her fi rst concern is the importance...

... features of postmodern metahistorical fi ction, including in her fi nal chapter an extended discussion of John Barth’s Sot-Weed Factor and Thomas Pynchon’s Mason and Dixonn as representative early and late versions of the postmodern metahistorical imagination. But her fi rst concern is the importance...

... features of postmodern metahistorical fi ction, including in her fi nal chapter an extended discussion of John Barth’s Sot-Weed Factor and Thomas Pynchon’s Mason and Dixonn as representative early and late versions of the postmodern metahistorical imagination. But her fi rst concern is the importance...

... features of postmodern metahistorical fi ction, including in her fi nal chapter an extended discussion of John Barth’s Sot-Weed Factor and Thomas Pynchon’s Mason and Dixonn as representative early and late versions of the postmodern metahistorical imagination. But her fi rst concern is the importance...

... features of postmodern metahistorical fi ction, including in her fi nal chapter an extended discussion of John Barth’s Sot-Weed Factor and Thomas Pynchon’s Mason and Dixonn as representative early and late versions of the postmodern metahistorical imagination. But her fi rst concern is the importance...

... features of postmodern metahistorical fi ction, including in her fi nal chapter an extended discussion of John Barth’s Sot-Weed Factor and Thomas Pynchon’s Mason and Dixonn as representative early and late versions of the postmodern metahistorical imagination. But her fi rst concern is the importance...

... features of postmodern metahistorical fi ction, including in her fi nal chapter an extended discussion of John Barth’s Sot-Weed Factor and Thomas Pynchon’s Mason and Dixonn as representative early and late versions of the postmodern metahistorical imagination. But her fi rst concern is the importance...