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Cowart, David, and Joseph W. Slade. "Thomas Pynchon." American Literature 65, no. 1 (March 1993): 170. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2928104.

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Varsava, Jerry A. "Thomas Pynchon and Postmodern Liberalism." Canadian Review of American Studies 25, no. 3 (January 1995): 63–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cras-025-03-05.

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Mellard, James M., and David Seed. "The Fictional Labyrinths of Thomas Pynchon." American Literature 61, no. 1 (March 1989): 131. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2926542.

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Mendelson, Edward, and John Dugdale. "Thomas Pynchon: Allusive Parables of Power." American Literature 64, no. 4 (December 1992): 842. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927669.

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Veggian, H. "Thomas Pynchon Against the Day." boundary 2 35, no. 1 (March 1, 2008): 197–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2007-032.

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Eve, Martin Paul. "Thomas Pynchon & the Dark Passages of History / Pynchon and Relativity: Narrative Time in Thomas Pynchon's Later Novels." Textual Practice 26, no. 5 (October 1, 2012): 973–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2012.730736.

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Seed, David, and Niran Abbas. "Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins." Modern Language Review 99, no. 4 (October 2004): 1042. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3738533.

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Merrill, Robert, and Thomas Moore. "The Style of Connectedness: Gravity's Rainbow and Thomas Pynchon." American Literature 60, no. 1 (March 1988): 136. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2926418.

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Weisenburger, Steven. "Thomas Pynchon at Twenty-Two: A Recovered Autobiographical Sketch." American Literature 62, no. 4 (December 1990): 692. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2927077.

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Muth, Katie. "The grammars of the system: Thomas Pynchon at Boeing." Textual Practice 33, no. 3 (February 26, 2019): 473–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2019.1580514.

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Raguz, Christopher. "Paranoid Epistemologies: Essays on Thomas Pynchon and the Scene of Disappearance." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2118.

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The following five essays are connected by their reference to a scene – imagined by the author Thomas Pynchon. The disappearance of historical cause, the subject, and the human constitute this epistemological scene. Each essay can be read without logically building off of any other – yet they form a wider assemblage of interpretative theory. These are fragments capable of recombination in any order. They shun systematization but welcome kinship. Pynchon's fiction is the substrate underlying each. Abstract machines of theorists thinking on similar wavelengths are used as catalysts in an effort to force a reaction – an attempt to transmute the stories of paranoid schlemihls into yet more paranoid epistemologies. How do we understand the degree to which we are organized by whatever systematizes? How do we relate to whatever organizes our knowledge, our identities? What, exactly, is playing us? These are the anxieties these essays share with Pynchon's characters and formulate the questions driving their theory. Call it the Post-Modern, the Post-Human, or any other Post, Pynchon anticipated its event horizon half a century before its more obvious implications made themselves clear. If we have passed fully over this horizon, figuring out where we are and what's going on has become a question of survival, and Pynchon's anticipation of our contemporary scene have become increasingly salient. These essays offer paranoid epistemologies for the age of disappearance.
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Li, Xu. "A postmodernist parodic allegory : Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49." Thesis, University of Macau, 2009. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2554106.

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Zadworna-Fjellestad, Danuta. "Alice's adventures in wonderland and Gravity's rainbow a study in duplex fiction /." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm, Sweden : Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1986. http://books.google.com/books?id=Q5laAAAAMAAJ.

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Eigeartaigh, Aoileann N. "'I shop, therefore I am' : consumerism and the mass media in the novels of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Bret Easton Ellis and Douglas Coupland." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/1790.

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This thesis argues that consumerism and the mass media wield an unparalleled influence over contemporary North American society, and that these forces constitute the primary means through which identity is constituted. The historical and theoretical developments that have led to the foregrounding of these forces are outlined in the introduction - developments, it is argued, that are intrinsically connected to the social upheava1 that characterized America in the late 1960's and early 1970's, while their presence in and effects on the fiction of four contemporary North American writers - Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Bret Easton Ellis and Douglas Coupland - are examined in the main body of the thesis. Chapter I focuses on Pynchon whose novels, it is argued, are the product of a uniquely post-1960's America, which mourns the sacrifice of traditional ideals to the corporate mindset which has been prevalent since ths 1980's Pynchon's dominant metaphor for the direction in which he believes American society to be moving is the thermodynamic concept of entropy, which stipulates that all prqress is towards death. His novels abound with characters who disintegrate due to the information overload fostered by their media-based world. However, he retains his faith that a return to historical values and traditions will stem and even reverse the entropic tide DeLillo, a close contemporary of Pynchon's, draws on a different aspect of the legacy of the 1960's, for his writing is overshadowed by the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy and the years of turbulence that ensued. His novels are ultimately more pessimistic because his characters do not succeed in escaping from the repressive narratives of consumerism and the mass media in order to reassert their own personalities. One reason for this failure, it is argued, is that DeLillo's characters represent a metaphorical dramatization of the dichotomy between the modernist desire for structure and the postmodernist embrace of fluidity and uncertainty. The fictional characters of the younger authors, Ellis and Coupland, inhabit this postmodern world where all experience has been rendered depthless and traditional ontological and epistemological certainties have been collapsed Ellis' characters fluctuate between the extremes of apathy and violence as they search for a way of preventing their psyches from disintegrating amidst the surrounding chaos. Neither one of these options brings - any relief. Coupland is more optimistic about the ability of his characters to survive and even prosper in the contemporary world. He arms them with the linguistic and technological skills necessary to adapt to the rapid social and technological changes. Most importantly of all, he draws on the sense of objectivity fostered by his own background as a Canadian in order to provide them with an alternative and a sense of escape from the media-saturated environment of the American West Coast. What is perhaps most remarkable about these four authors as a group is that in spite of their obvious insight into the nature of the contemporary postmodern world, they are unwilling - or perhaps even unable - to fully relinquish their hold on a number of traditional metanarratives, most notably the ideal of the stable, supportive family unit. This implies a degree of uncertainty and perhaps even of fear on their parts about fully committing to the fluidity of contemporary culture.
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Dvorak, John N. "Lukácsian aesthetics in a post-modern world: understanding Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon through the lens of Georg Lukács’ the historical novel." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/3896.

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Master of Arts
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This thesis project seeks to reconcile the literary criticism of Marxist critic and advocate of literary realism Georg Lukács with the writing of postmodern author Thomas Pynchon in order to validate the continued relevance of Lukácsian aesthetics. Chapter 1 argues that Lukács’ The Historical Novel is not only a valid lens with which to analyze Pynchon’s own historical novel, Mason & Dixon, but that such analysis will yield valuable insight. Chapter 2 illustrates the aesthetic transition from the historical drama to the historical novel by using Lukács’ ideas to explicate The Courier’s Tragedy, a historical drama found within the pages of Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49. Chapter 3 applies Lukács’ ideas on the “world-historical” figure and the “mediocre” hero of the classic historical novel to Mason & Dixon. Chapter 4 asserts that Mason & Dixon enables contemporary readers to experience the novel as what Lukács calls a “prehistory” to the present. This chapter also illustrates how the prehistory of Mason & Dixon anticipates Pynchon’s nonfiction essay “A Journey into the Mind of Watts.” Finally, this chapter demonstrates how Pynchon avoids the pitfall of modernization in Mason & Dixon, which Lukács defines as the dressing up of contemporary crises and psychology in a historical setting. Chapter 5 ties together the work of the previous four chapters and offers conclusions on both what Pynchon teaches us about Lukács, as well as what Lukács helps us to learn about Pynchon.
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Bewernick, Hanne. "The storyteller's memory palace a method of interpretation based on the function of memory systems in literature ; Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Thomas Pynchon and Paul Auster." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2008. http://d-nb.info/1001701801/04.

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Klose, Yvonne [Verfasser]. "«How had it ever happened here?» : A Constructivist Reading of Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 and its Role in the Pynchon Canon / Yvonne Klose." Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2012. http://d-nb.info/1042414904/34.

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Sigvardson, Joakim. "Immanence and transcendence in Thomas Pynchon's "Mason & Dixon" : a phenomenological study /." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39265658c.

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Ashford, Joan Anderson. "Ecocritical Theology Neo-Pastoral Themes in American Fiction from 1960 to the Present." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2009. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/52.

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Ecocritical theology relates to American fiction as it connects nature and spirituality. In my development of the term “neo-pastoral” I begin with Virgil’s Eclogues to serve as examples for spiritual and nature related themes. Virgil’s characters in “The Dispossessed” represent people’s alienation from the land. Meliboeus must leave his homeland because the Roman government has reassigned it to their war veterans. As he leaves Meliboeus wonders why fate has rendered this judgment on him and yet has granted his friend Tityrus a reprieve. Typically, pastoral literature represents people’s longing to leave the city and return to the spiritual respite of the country. When Meliboeus begins his journey he does not travel toward a specific geographical location. Because the gods have forced him from his land and severed his spiritual connection to nature he travels into the unknown. This is the starting point from which I develop neo-pastoral threads in contemporary literature and discuss the alienation that people experience when they are no longer connected to a spirit of the land or genius loci. Neo-pastoralism relates Bakhtin’s idea of chronotope and the expansion of the narrative voice of the novel to include the time/space dialogic. Neo-pastoral fiction shows people in their quest to find spirituality in spite of damage from chemical catastrophic events and suggests they may turn to technology as an ideological base to replace religion. The (anti) heroes of this genre often feel no connection with Judeo-Christian canon yet they do not consider other models of spirituality. Through catastrophes related to the atomic bomb, nuclear waste accidents, and the realization of how chemical pollutants affect the atmosphere, neo-pastoral literature explores the idea of apocalypticism in the event of mass annihilation and the need for canonical reformation. The novels explored in this dissertation are John Updike’s Rabbit, Run; Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49; Bernard Malamud’s The Fixer; Don DeLillo’s White Noise; Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead; Toni Morrison’s Paradise; and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.
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Davis, Robert Lawrence. "History and Resistance in the Early Novels of Thomas Pynchon." The Ohio State University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392046961.

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Books on the topic "Pynchon, Thomas English Literature"

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Entgrenzungen und Entgrenzungsmythen: Zur Subjektivität im modernen Roman : Daniel Defoe, Herman Melville, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Pynchon. Stuttgart: F. Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, 1987.

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Bérubé, Michael. Marginal forces/cultural centers: Tolson, Pynchon, and the politics of the canon. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 1992.

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The self-conscious novel: Artifice in fiction from Joyce to Pynchon. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988.

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Bewernick, Hanne. The storyteller's memory palace: A method of interpretation based on the function of memory systems in literature : Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Thomas Pynchon and Paul Auster. Frankfurt am Main: New York, 2010.

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Eddins, Dwight. The gnostic pynchon. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.

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The Cambridge companion to Thomas Pynchon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Christian allusions in the novels of Thomas Pynchon. New York: P. Lang, 1989.

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Madsen, Deborah L. The postmodernist allegories of Thomas Pynchon. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.

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The Postmodernist allegories of Thomas Pynchon. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1991.

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Mason & Dixon & Pynchon. Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 2000.

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Book chapters on the topic "Pynchon, Thomas English Literature"

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Schmidt, Gabriela. "11. Thomas More, Utopia (1516/1551)." In Handbook of English Renaissance Literature, edited by Ingo Berensmeyer, 244–64. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110444889-012.

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Hadfield, Andrew. "19. Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller (1594)." In Handbook of English Renaissance Literature, edited by Ingo Berensmeyer, 395–410. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110444889-020.

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Haekel, Ralf. "16. Thomas Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy (c. 1587)." In Handbook of English Renaissance Literature, edited by Ingo Berensmeyer, 331–51. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110444889-017.

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Stelzer, Emanuel. "28. Thomas Carew and Inigo Jones, Coelum Britannicum (1634)." In Handbook of English Renaissance Literature, edited by Ingo Berensmeyer, 557–72. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110444889-029.

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Twyning, John. "Thomas Hardy’s Architecture of History." In Forms of English History in Literature, Landscape, and Architecture, 143–84. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137284709_6.

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Ord, Melanie. "Textual Experience in Thomas Coryat’s Crudities (1611)." In Travel and Experience in Early Modern English Literature, 123–54. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230614505_5.

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Wolfreys, Julian. "English Losses: Thomas Hardy and the Memory of Wessex." In Haunted Selves, Haunting Places in English Literature and Culture, 43–82. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98089-8_3.

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Cefalu, Paul. "Infinite Love and the Limits of Neo-Scholasticism in the Poetry and Prose of Thomas Traherne." In English Renaissance Literature and Contemporary Theory:, 141–79. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230607491_5.

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Perkins, Nicholas. "Thomas Hoccleve, La Male Regle." In A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture c.1350-c.1500, 588–603. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470996355.ch36.

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Smith, Peter J. "Tales of the City: The Comedies of Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton." In A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture, 513–24. Malden, MA, USA: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470998731.ch43.

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