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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 93–99.
Published: 01 May 2010
....) In resisting these two positions, the essay turns to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow as a novelistic meditation on the target ontologized—that is, on the emergence of a world in which to be is ostensibly to be seen through crosshairs. Although Pynchon's novel at once implicates itself and schools its reader...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 332–336.
Published: 01 August 2009
... ambivalent about the threat or promise of what Perry Anderson has called “the revolutionary horizon” visible at the turn into the twentieth century. In a contemporary, postmodern, historical novel such as Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day , history is what Pynchon calls “time's pathology”—a pathology whose...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 357–360.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Samuel Cohen JOHN A. McCLURE, Partial Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison (Athens: U of Georgia P, 2007), pp. 209, cloth, $59.95, paper, $22.95. © 2010 by Novel, Inc. 2010 The Cloud of Unknowing
john a. mcclure, Partial Faiths...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 495–498.
Published: 01 November 2015
... it is so unpredictable and inconsistent. I am curious about how Belletto would account for this alternative iteration of the chance/design binary. In his chapter on Pynchon, Belletto briefly mentions Coover's The Public Burning , arguing that Coover's fictionalized Richard Nixon distorts the ideology...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 465–468.
Published: 01 November 2014
... troublesome forms of emotional validation.
Bachner begins her argument by identifying linked propositions about the nature of
violence that have, in American postmodern fiction, been elevated to the level of common
sense. In readings of Thomas Pynchon, Norman Mailer, Margaret Atwood, Don DeLillo...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 336–339.
Published: 01 August 2010
... cartographic encounters of Herman Mel-
ville in Moby-Dick, James Joyce in Ulysses, and Thomas Pynchon in Gravity’s Rainbow. Read-
ing them against each other allows Bulson to provide a major contribution to the cultural
history of the novel. Each author was an avid map reader whose global imaginings relied...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 519–522.
Published: 01 November 2016
... . Le Clair Tom . The Art of Excess: Mastery in Contemporary American Fiction . Urbana : U of Illinois P , 1989 . Mendelson Edward . “ Encyclopedic Narrative: From Dante to Pynchon .” MLN 91 . 6 ( 1976 ): 1267 – 75 . Mendelson Edward . “ Gravity’s Rainbow .” Mindful...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 349–354.
Published: 01 August 2009
... . Ondaatje , Michael . Anil's Ghost . New York: Vintage, 2000 . Pynchon , Thomas . Vineland . New York: Penguin, 1990 . Said , Edward . Orientalism . New York: Vintage, 1979 . The Return of the Referent in
Recent North American Fiction...
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Novel (2024) 57 (1): 122–127.
Published: 01 May 2024
... environment, while revealing ways urban transience holds the vitality of “black memory, black community, and black life within its infrastructural folds” (138). Chapter 4 examines the material presence of “everyday life” in the fiction of Thomas Pynchon, often deemed a literary postmodernist par...
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Novel (2017) 50 (1): 123–127.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of archaeological digs into modern spaces and locales. Alworth develops his theory by studying a number of novelists of the past fifty years, including Ralph Ellison, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Joan Didion, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, and Cormac McCarthy, with cameo appearances by many others. He pairs...
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Novel (2016) 49 (3): 534–536.
Published: 01 November 2016
... as though we need new ways of reading, new interpretive approaches that make visible and that can help us move beyond the established horizons of thought and discourse. This is precisely what literature gives us, Cucu argues. The Underside of Politics proposes that we can understand the work of Pynchon...
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Novel (2003) 36 (2): 267–269.
Published: 01 August 2003
... and/or films, O'Donnell is more sympathetic to some
projects than others. On the one hand, of the narratives he considers, Pynchon's The Crying
ofLot 49, Kathy Acker's Empire of the Senseless, and DeLillo's Underworld seem the most
simpatico to O'Donnell's desire to complicate Deleuze and Guattari's...
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Novel (2011) 44 (3): 521–524.
Published: 01 November 2011
... of premodern societies. In The House
of the Seven Gables, for example, Hepzibah Pynchon’s poverty has forced her to turn her
ancient dwelling into a site of modern commerce and a sign of her socially traumatized
present, but the larger story of Salem’s modernity also concerns its persistent haunting...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 158–161.
Published: 01 May 2016
... novels of traumatic re-memory, such as Beloved [1987])” (6). Leaving aside the question of whether Morrison's novel about slavery and its aftermath can be seen as privatizing politics, it is difficult to argue that authors like Didion, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo were neither explicitly political...
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Novel (2016) 49 (1): 95–114.
Published: 01 May 2016
... authors such as John Barth and Thomas Pynchon displayed little interest in the themes or techniques of their immediate forebears, and they certainly did not return to the conventions of nineteenth-century narrative realism. Instead, they brought a profoundly new strategy of reading to bear on the book...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 393–397.
Published: 01 August 2016
... afforded by mutual exclusion—conflicting events or interpretations within a single novel. The first chapter follows the “oscillations” of Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 . This will stand as a definitive reading of the novel, one that makes impressive sense of its manic fluctuations of meaning...
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Novel (2015) 48 (1): 148–150.
Published: 01 May 2015
.... Within the limits of his methodology, which are significant, Coale provides good readings of several postmodern authors, including Joan Didion, Tim O'Brien, Thomas Pynchon, Paul Auster, and Don DeLillo. Although many have discussed the fragmentation, nonlinear narratives, lack of coherent subjectivities...
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Novel (2009) 42 (2): 290–296.
Published: 01 August 2009
... the imaginary
spaces of science fiction, from Jules Verne’s underwater and underground odysseys
in 20,000 Leagues under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth to the shadowy
Zone of Europe at the end of World War II in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow,
haunted by struggles for rocket...
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Novel (2011) 44 (2): 317–319.
Published: 01 August 2011
... the wide field of postwar
fiction, and there they all are: John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Ken Kesey, Thomas Pynchon,
Joyce Carol Oates, Ishmael Reed, Sandra Cisneros, N. Scott Momaday, on and on, the legion.
McGurl gets to them all, does brief takes that are often like droll monologues, deadpan, epi...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 138–140.
Published: 01 May 1999
... of writers such as Joyce, Nabokov, and Pynchon, on the
laughter of the madman in Foucault and of the Medusa in Cixous. For Taylor, this laughter
can only be transgressive in the symbolic realm, and is "characterized by a heady, euphoric
irony, attended more by witty, bemused appreciation than by any...
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