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| Author | : Steven C. Weisenburger |
| Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2011-03-15 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0820337641 |
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 Weisenburger takes the reader page by page, often line by line, through the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes, and puns around which Pynchon wove his story.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 | : Thomas Pynchon |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 885 |
| Release | : 2012-06-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101594659 |
Winner of the 1974 National Book Award "The most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II." - The New Republic “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.
| Author | : Inger H. Dalsgaard |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 213 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0521769744 |
This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.
| Author | : Luc Herman |
| Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 269 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0820345954 |
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 |
| Total Pages | : 786 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 0977312798 |
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 |
| Total Pages | : 252 |
| Release | : 2001-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780820322506 |
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 |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 1980 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Steven Weisenburger |
| Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780820310268 |
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 |
| Total Pages | : 1541 |
| Release | : 2012-06-13 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1101594667 |
“[Pynchon's] funniest and arguably his most accessible novel.” —The New York Times Book Review “Raunchy, funny, digressive, brilliant.” —USA Today “Rich and sweeping, wild and thrilling.” —The Boston Globe 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, 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.
| Author | : J. Kerry Grant |
| Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
| Total Pages | : 209 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0820332089 |
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.
