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The Diary of William Pynchon of Salem: A Picture of Salem ...

The Diary of William Pynchon of Salem: A Picture of Salem ...

William Pynchon

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series.
Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon

Simon Malpas

Maureen F. Curtin, Out of Touch: Skin Tropes and Identities in Woolf, Ellison, Pynchon and Acker, New York: Routledge, 2003, 70. Curtin persuasively argues that Pynchon's story represents a response to the question of black invisibility posed ...
Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History

Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History

David Cowart

Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History offers a deft analysis of the problems of history as engaged by our greatest living novelist and argues for the continuity of Pynchon's historical vision.
Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins

Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins

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This volume is a collection of essays by various academics looking at how identity is shaped, gendered, and contested throughout Pynchon's work.
Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon

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Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of Thomas Pynchon.
Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon

Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon

Molly Hite

And these are interpretations that Pynchon regards, not only as opposing, but as exclusive; and they exclude not only one another, but claim also to exclude that 2middle3 region of meaning and discourse that is the traditional subject ...
Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture

Thomas Pynchon and American Counterculture

Joanna Freer

See Amy J. Elias, “Plots, Pilgrimage, and the Politics of Genre in Against the Day, ” in Pynchon's “Against the Day”: A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide, ed. Jeffrey Severs and Christopher Leise (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2011), 29–46.
Pynchon Notes

Pynchon Notes

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Curtin, Maureen F. Out of Touch: Skin Tropes and ldentities in WooIf, Ellison, Pynchon, and Acker. New York: Routledge, 2003. Dalsgaard, lnger Hunnerup. " Gravity's Rainbow: 'An Historical Novel of a Whole New Sort.'" Blissful Bewilderment: ...
Gravity's Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom

Gravity's Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom

Luc Herman

... 2012); Adrian Wisnicki, “A Trove of New Works by Thomas Pynchon?: Bomarc Service News Rediscovered,” Pynchon Notes 46–49 (2000–2001): 9–34. 11. Neil Sheehan, A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate ...
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register

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... Pynchon [hereinafter Pynchon Record], 223 (FHL microfilm 014,766). 34. Hampshire County Court [note 22], 110. 35. Ibid., 70, 105; Imogene Hawks Lane, John Hawks [:j A Founder of Hadley, Massachusetts (Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., ...
The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption

The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption

William Pynchon

Introductory essays by Michael W. Vella, Lance Schachterle, and Louis Mackey explore questions of genealogy, theology, and postmodernism in the presentation of this facsimile edition aimed at scholars and readers of both Pynchons.
The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption (Classic Reprint)

The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption (Classic Reprint)

William Pynchon

About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.
Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding ...

Profits in the Wilderness: Entrepreneurship and the Founding ...

John Frederick Martin

As Stephen Innes has Puritans and Indians, 1620–1675 (Boston, 1965), 216; Harry Andrew Wright, ed., Indian Deeds of Hampden County (Springfield, Mass., 1905), 11. 4. Morison, “William Pynchon,” MHS, Procs., LXIV (1930–1932), 78, 79 , ...
Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon

Simon Malpas

Now available in paperback, this is a comprehensive study of the most influential figure in postwar American literature.
V.

V.

Thomas Pynchon

The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men—one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much to lose—and “V.,” the unknown woman of the title.
Contemporary American Novelists of the Absurd

Contemporary American Novelists of the Absurd

Charles H. Harris

Examines the themes and styles of the absurdist novelists Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Thomas Pynchon, and John Barth
The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

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Inger H. Dalsgaard, Luc Herman, Brian McHale. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 2 Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Durham: Duke University Press, 1991), p. 1.
Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

Winner of the 1974 National Book Award “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 ...
Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to The X Files

Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to The X Files

Dr Peter Knight

Conspiracy Culture shows how Americans have come to distrust not only the narratives of the authorities, but even the authority of narrative itself to explain What Is Really Going On. From the complexities of Thomas Pynchon's novels to the ...
Pynchon's Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide

Pynchon's Against the Day: A Corrupted Pilgrim's Guide

Jeffrey Severs

See Amy J. Elias's essay in this volume for an account of pilgrimage as fluid but directed, potentially nonhierarchical, and oriented spiritually toward the future. 13 . Our formal attention to the question of anarchism in Against the Day does not ...
Pastoralia

Pastoralia

George Saunders

'Saunders is an astoundingly tuned voice - graceful, dark, authentic and funny - telling just the kind of stories we need to get us through these times' Thomas Pynchon In PASTORALIA elements of contemporary life are twisted, merged and ...
The Navy List

The Navy List

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American Exceptionalism

American Exceptionalism

Deborah L. Madsen

" Recent history of American exceptionalism is revealed in the culture of movie Westerns and revisions of the American myth as shown by the novels of Larry McMurtry, Toni Morrison, and Thomas Pynchon.

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