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Berrada, Fakhereddine. "The other Pynchon : narrative strategies and Thomas Pynchon's postcolonial imagination." Thesis, Cardiff University, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.399205.

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Maltby, Paul Leon. "Dissident postmodernists : Barthelme, Coover, Pynchon." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.277407.

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Maltby, Paul. "Dissident postmodernists : Barthelme, Coover, Pynchon /." Philadelphia (Pa.) : University of Pennsylvania press, 1991. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb35701930x.

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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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Jones, Deborah L. "Postmodernist allegory : the works of Thomas Pynchon /." Title page, contents and synopsis only, 1985. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armj759.pdf.

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Hackett, Jonathan Michael. "Towards the postmodern : Pynchon, psychoanalysis and postmodernism." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.442438.

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Pertile, Giovanni Battista <1991&gt. "Thomas Pynchon, La voce invisibile della postmodernità." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/8806.

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L’elaborato è stato concepito al fine di presentare compiutamente l’opera dell’autore statunitense Thomas Pynchon indagando, analizzando gli otto romanzi più la raccolta di racconti brevi Slow Learner, i temi di riflessione che emergono da una attenta lettura delle complicate, enciclopediche e pregne di significato pagine che lo scrittore ha costruito durante i più di cinquant’anni di enorme sforzo intellettuale. Affinché il lavoro assumesse una maggiore stabilità di contesto si è resa necessaria un’analisi sui movimenti culturali che hanno portato alla nascita dello spirito del postmodernismo
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Meresse, Bastien. "Thomas Pynchon ou les territoires de la faille." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA110.

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Géographe picaresque à cheval sur les côtes atlantique et pacifique, Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Junior signe une œuvre orientée vers l’origine défectueuse et la trajectoire entropique du continent américain, sept générations après la grande migration puritaine à laquelle son ancêtre William fut l’un des premiers à participer. L’enjeu de cette thèse est de revenir sur la façon dont le roman pynchonien cherche à circonscrire les figures de cette latence de la grande faute américaine, un « vice caché, » puisque tel est le titre de son avant-dernier roman, pour retrouver la prairie pe
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Kuennemann, Ingrid. "Vérité et connaissance dans l'oeuvre fictionnelle de Thomas Pynchon, de "The voice of the hamster" à "Against the day"." Thesis, Paris 3, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA030005.

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Outre leur caractère encyclopédique, les récits de Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. empruntant le mode de la quête, la vérité et sa trouvaille s’en trouvent explicitement au fondement. La vérité est cependant aussi centrale que structurellement absente, hors-récit, relevant plutôt de la condition même d’existence du récit, se confondant presque avec la possibilité de dire, la fonction de nomination : vaut pour vérité le fait que le dit se tienne de lui-même. La connaissance, elle, choit ce faisant du côté de l’inconscient, là où le sujet s’abîme dans cette vérité extérieure à lui qu’est la garantie
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Kharpertian, Kiara L. Pynchon Thomas. "Little Slothrop and the big bad rocket : approaches to the mythological and mechanical rocket-god in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow /." Connect to online version, 2007. http://ada.mtholyoke.edu/setr/websrc/pdfs/www/2007/229.pdf.

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Schieweg, Larissa S. "Die Bürde der Geschichte : Der Untergang des Baedekerlandes im Werk von Thomas Pynchon /." Berlin : LIT, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40244725w.

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Thomas, Samuel Luke. "'Now everybody' : in search of a political Thomas Pynchon." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.420507.

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Freer, Joanna Elizabeth. "A "little parenthesis of light" : Pynchon and the counterculture." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/43092/.

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This thesis examines the countercultural politics expressed within the work of the American novelist Thomas Pynchon, contributing to critical work already published on the subject of Pynchon's politics, in which there has been a recent upsurge of interest. Expressions of sympathy with anarchist and anti-Capitalist principles discerned in Pynchon's work are explored in their connection with the author's experience of particular practices and philosophies of the 1960s counterculture. Furthermore, the ongoing significance of sixties politics in Pynchon's more recent production is demonstrated as
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Battesti, Anne. "Gravity's rainbow de Thomas Pynchon : l'écriture de la bifurcation." Orléans, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994ORLE1006.

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L'écriture de Th. Pynchon, dans son oeuvre majeure qu'est Gravity's rainbow, mobilise toutes les ressources de l'expressivité. Le spectacle d'une telle profusion reconduit la "bifurcation" majeure du roman au plan thématique : entre, d'une part, l'intégration tautologique de toute variété et de tout écart, et d'autre part la désintégration du monde et des significations dans la dissipation des formes. La dissipation affecte l'origine et l'autorité des discours, étudiés dans le premier chapître : la circulation des voix effectue un partage, et une dépossession des locuteurs ; la simulation et l
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De, Zwaan Victoria. "Metaphor and possibility in Pynchon : an interpretation of Gravity's rainbow." Thesis, McGill University, 1986. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=65485.

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Dugdale, J. "Allusiveness and self-consciousness in the fiction of Thomas Pynchon." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.233900.

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This dissertation is concerned with the works written by the American novelist Thomas Pynchon while he was in his twenties. As such it deals with some of the short stories he produced as a student at Cornell, and with his first two novels, <i>V.</i> and <i>The Crying of Lot 49</i>. It excludes his longest and probably greatest novel, <i>Gravity's Rainbow</i>, partly because the earlier work deserves more attention than it has received, partly because it is difficult to confine a discussion of a text of such size and complexity to a single chapter. The Introduction is an exposition of the metho
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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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Ober, Didier. "L'apocalypse et son theatre dans "gravity's rainbow" de thomas pynchon." Lille 3, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996LIL30021.

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"gravity's rainbow" est le theatre d'une fin du monde imminente et qui a pour-tant deja eu lieu sous cette surface que l'on appelle "realite" ou "histoire". Theatralisee, cette fin est un devenir. Concernant autant les personnages que le lecteur, la quete du sens, ou meme d'une coherence, devieirt l'experience d'une ; prrance en devenir, a jamais inachevee et qui plongerait le sujet dans le devenir de sa propre. Disparition. Le recit lui-meme se nourrit de sa propre destruction et donne lieu a une nouvelle destination, a un nouveau commencement qui ne peut etre que le recommencement de sa prop
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Spielmacher, Mark. "Technologized subjects in the novels of Thomas Pynchon and Don Delillo." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0009/NQ32858.pdf.

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bourcier, Simon de. "Relativity and narrative time in the late fiction of Thomas Pynchon." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.533702.

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Hall, J. "A metaphysical country : American pragmatist fictions in Barth, Pynchon, and Reed." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.599863.

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The aim of this thesis is to reread the work of three US writers, whose novels have long been central to the postmodern canon - John Barth, Thomas Pynchon, and Ishmael Reed - in relation to philosophical pragmatism. The scepticism expressed in their parodic reworkings of everything from mythology, to history, to philosophy and literature will be resituated alongside an antifoundational philosophy that Cornel West has described as ‘an attempt to explain America to itself at a particular historical moment’. In each chapter I will be elucidating connections that exist between these writers and pr
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Eve, Martin Paul. "Hostility or tolerance? : philosophy, polyphony and the novels of Thomas Pynchon." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/40841/.

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This thesis undertakes a systematic, tripartite analysis of the interactions between the fiction and essays of Thomas Pynchon and the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Michel Foucault and Theodor W. Adorno, resulting in a solid set of original reference-material for those undertaking work on Pynchon and philosophy, or more generally on philosophico-literary intersections. Premised upon the notion that Pynchon's literature harbours a fundamental hostility to much systematizing philosophical thought, this work avoids a dominating imposition of philosophy, or an application of philosophical thou
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Howard, Augustus Pritchard. "A proper secularism : beyond ideology in Bulgakov, Trilling, Updike and Pynchon." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/290386.

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My dissertation, "A Proper Secularism: Beyond Ideology in Bulgakov, Trilling, Updike and Pynchon," explores the ways in which the literary imagination pushes beyond ideology, and points towards notions of the eternal, by attunement and fidelity to the material. In the terms of Rowan Williams, "if a proper secularism requires faith; if it is to guarantee freedom, this is because a civilized politics must be a politics attuned to the real capacities and dignities of the person." It is the argument of this thesis that the literary imagination, when operating with integrity, mirrors this understan
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Dix, Andrew. "Ideology and Utopia in novels by William Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283702.

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Kapp, W. "The treatment of Historical space in selected works by Thomas Pynchon." University of the Western Cape, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8199.

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Magister Artium - MA<br>The focus on space and spatiality is relatively new in literary studies and also not unproblematic. Problems arise from the way in which these concepts are constructed, described, defined and interpret~. It is possible to derive numerous kinds of space, such as historical space, physical space, metaphysical space and religious space, to name a few, from the structure or thematics of a novel. This in itself presents a problem, since the literary scholar must differentiate between these spaces in order to determine which will be most useful for study of a particular aspec
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Chorier, Bénédicte. "Le Badass et autres excentriques : de la subversion chez Thomas Pynchon." Montpellier 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987MON30028.

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L'oeuvre de thomas pynchon porte les traces d'un ecroulement general des valeurs qui fondaient la vision du monde des modernes. Pynchon se place dans la lignee d'une pensee qui cherche a se soustraire a la tentation de rassembler la multiplicite inquietante des donnees de l'experience humaine en une unite rassurante. Une lecture detaillee de la premiere section de gravity's rainbow montre que pynchon ouvre un espace qui permet d'echapper aux determinations. Cet espace, c'est celui de la subversion, une entreprise de type dionysiaque menee par toute une serie de personnages participant d'un typ
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Chamerois, Gilles. "La ligne et le verbe : Mason & Dixon de Thomas Pynchon." Paris 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA030121.

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Tenter de représenter l'Amérique par un foisonnement de figures invraisemblables et anachroniques, tel est le dessein de Mason &amp; Dixon. C'est toujours par la médiation d'un tiers que se nouent les rapports entre le texte et le monde. Mais c'est d'abord à des tiers-textes que s'attache ce travail. Après une première partie centrée sur les rapports ambivalents du roman avec le dictionnaire, la deuxième s'attache à ceux qu'il entretient avec l'encyclopédie, et en particulier avec les références scientifiques. La troisième partie se concentre sur le lieu où les mots se transforment en figures,
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Chorier, Bénédicte. "Le Badass et autres excentriques de la subversion chez Thomas Pynchon /." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37603951g.

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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
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Pooley, Charles. "The varieties of paranoia in Gravity's rainbow." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape11/PQDD_0002/MQ43933.pdf.

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Orbán, Katalin. "Ethical diversions : the post-holocaust narratives of Pynchon, Abish, DeLillo, and Spiegelman /." New York [u.a.] : Routledge, 2005. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0421/2004018260.html.

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Woodhead, David P. "The necessity of innovation : an interpretation of the novels of Thomas Pynchon." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.277904.

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Klepper, Martin. "Pynchon, Auster, DeLillodie amerikanische Postmoderne zwischen Spiel und RekonstruktionMartin KlepperFrankfurt/Main [u.a.]Campus-Verl. 19961996394 S. Nordamerikastudien ; 3BV01107854433Zugl.: Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 19953-593-35618-X : die amerikanische Postmoderne zwischen Spiel und Rekonstruktion /." Frankfurt/Main [u.a.] : Campus-Verl, 1996. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=007337888&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Smith, Kyle Wishart. "The true momentum of its time : Gravity's rainbow and pre-cold war British spy fiction." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.369707.

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Rowlinson, Zachary James. "Dismantling the face in Thomas Pynchon's fiction." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/60110/.

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Thomas Pynchon has often been hailed, by those at wont to make such statements, as the most significant American author of the past half-century. What is indisputable about this simultaneously beguiling and frustrating, prodigiously sophisticated and irrevocably juvenile, not to say admired and reviled writer, is that his fiction has inspired critical readings that are now as appositely voluminous as his novels themselves. Yet no prior critical effort does full justice to the importance of the face in the work of this notoriously “faceless” author, who even had a brown paper bag over his head
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Signell, Andreas. "The Postmodern self in Thomas Pynchon's the Crying of Lot 49 : Dismantling the unified self by a combination of postmodern philosophy and close reading." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-21255.

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Abstract This essay is about identity and the self in Thomas Pynchon's critically acclaimed masterpiece The Crying of Lot 49. Through a combination of postmodern philosophy and close reading, it examines instances of postmodernist representations of identity in the novel. The essay argues that Pynchon is dismantling the idea of a unified self and instead argues for and presents a postmodern take on identity in its place. Questions asked by the essay are: in what ways does Pynchon criticize the idea of a unified self? What alternatives to this notion does Pynchon present? The essay is split int
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Medoro, Dana Elizabeth. "The bleeding of America, menstruation as symbolic economy in Pynchon, Faulkner and Morrison." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0005/NQ42960.pdf.

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Kapp, Werner. "The treatment of historical space in selected works by Thomas Pynchon / W. Kapp." Thesis, North-West University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/672.

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This dissertation uses the concept of various "spaces" in a literary work to attain a historical perspective on selected works by Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966); Gravity's Rainbow (1973) and Mason & Dixon (1997). The historical space forms the focal point for a discussion, since history is an important theme in Pynchon's novels. Different views of history can be constructed from each text by noting the interaction of the spaces and how they relate to the historical space. The Crying of Lot 49 focuses on the individual in relation to history from a post Second World War perspective
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Haynes, Doug. "'A more comely beak' : Thomas Pynchon, surrealism and the black humour of totality." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407737.

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Best, Philip. "Apocalypticisim in the fiction of William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, and Thomas Pynchon." Thesis, Durham University, 1998. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/994/.

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Moss, Richard James. "Towards a preterite theology : resistance and spirituality in the novels of Thomas Pynchon." Thesis, Durham University, 2014. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10577/.

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This thesis will explore how the American writer Thomas Pynchon creates a functioning, working theological model for the “preterite” communities and spaces with three of his novels: Gravity’s Rainbow, Vineland and Against the Day. Building on John McClure’s postsecular reading of Pynchon in Partial Faiths and religious readings of the texts by Dwight Eddins and Kathryn Hume, this thesis expands on the themes and theories presented in these critical works. In this thesis I posit that the theological material of Pynchon is largely underrepresented in Pynchon criticism, and what work there is doe
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Orbán, Katalin. "Ethical diversions : the post-holocaust narratives of Pynchon, Abish, De Lillo and Spiegelman /." New York : Routledge, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39295123z.

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Simony, Christopher. "Slothrop's Sublime: Perversion and Paranoia in Gravity's Rainbow." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2012. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/124.

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This paper examines how the protagonist of Gravity’s Rainbow, Tyrone Slothrop, seeks subjective fixity in the historical and postmodern sublime. Using an approach that draws upon the theories of Freud, Lacan, and Zizek, the essay argues that while Slothrop indulges his own paranoia and commits acts of increasing perversion to assert self, these attempts actually blur the lines of identity instead of presenting an autonomous being.
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Adams, Brittany N. "From Postmodernism to Psychoanalysis: Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1302656178.

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Sijnja, Jennifer. "Apprehensive Irony and Disappearing Communities in the War Fiction of Ernest Hemingway, Evelyn Waugh and Joseph Heller." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17740.

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This study seeks to excavate a certain line of irony running through the war fiction of Ernest Hemingway, Evelyn Waugh, and Joseph Heller. Bookended by brief engagements with Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage (1895) and Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), the study of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises (1926) and A Farewell to Arms (1929), Waugh’s Put Out More Flags (1942) and Sword of Honour trilogy (1965), and Heller’s Catch-22 (1961) seeks to map out the emergence of a kind of irony that is best understood to function as a mode of apprehension. As the publication dates of these no
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Dickson, Samuel John. "The persistence of postmodernism and the sixties." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13374.

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This thesis argues that postmodernism is best understood as an aftereffect, extension or reaction to the 'sixties'. However, what this term designates is not a period of calendar time coterminous with its namesake decade but a set of historical conditions whose period logic doesn't 'end' until the early 1970s. The textual features of postmodernism are interpreted as a response to the sixties as a historical moment of the possibility, and subsequent foreclosure, of a particular mode of radical emancipatory politics. Each chapter identifies the postmodern form as a register of this foreclosure,
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Froeliger, Nicolas. "Thèmes, schèmes, formes : le jeu avec les limites dans les romans de Thomas Pynchon." Paris 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA030064.

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L'ecriture de pynchon tend a faire eclater l'unite de signification du langage en un myriade de fragments qui se reflechissent ensuite les uns dans les autres d'une infinite de manieres, provoquant une seconde explosion : celle des possibilites de hierarchisation et des systemes de valeurs romanesques. Ils nous convient ainsi a une mise en desordre ludique de l'univers referentiel et du langage. Cette strategie passe par la constitution d'un they-system oppresseur et createur de normalite, combattu par un we-system anarchique. On la retrouve dans le jeu des modes et voix narratifs, dans le tra
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Marco, del Pont Xavier. "Titles and topoi : narrative structure and orqanizational devices in the work of Thomas Pynchon." Thesis, University of London, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.603448.

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This thesis will extend the critical supposition common in studies of Thomas pynchon that the author's novels bear a direct structural correlation to their respective titles. Taking as a starting point Samuel Cohen's analysis of the importance of the ampersand in Mason & Dixon (1997), Joseph W. Slade and Tony Tanner's parabolic models for Gravity's Rainbow (1973). and Harold Bloom's observations on the V·shape in V. (1963), I intend to apply an analogous logic to The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Vineland (1990), Againstthe Day (2006) and Inherent Vice (2009), proceeding chronologically across Pync
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Mosch, Matthias. "The Faust myth in William Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon : postmodern negotiations of western modernity." Thesis, Durham University, 2012. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5901/.

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This thesis examines the Faust myth in post-war American fiction, giving special consideration to works of William Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon. I present these works, which are underrepresented in broader studies of the literary tradition of the myth, as substantial contributions to the latter, while demonstrating how their thematic and stylistic proximity can be explained through their use of the myth itself. I thereby meet two desiderata: a location of Gaddis’s and Pynchon’s Faustiana in specific currents of twentieth-century intellectual history and a qualitative comparison between both autho
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Ravasi, Mattia <1991&gt. "Getting Constructively Lost: Self-Conscious Escapism in the Fiction of Chabon, Díaz and Pynchon." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/8761.

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La mia tesi indagherà il modo in cui il tema dell'escapismo e della fuga dalla realtà è esplorato nella fiction di Michael Chabon e Junot Diaz, e nel romanzo Bleeding Edge di Thomas Pynchon. Particolare peso sarà dato a come tale tema si leghi a discussioni più ampie su realismo e letteratura e su questioni di genere.
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