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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Gravity's Rainbow"”.
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'I Heard Beauty Dying': The Cultural Critique of Plastic in Gravity's Rainbow
… get a grasp on Pynchon's 700-plus page omnibus, Gravity's Rainbow, by focusing on the development of a single motif in the novel: plastic. It argues that Pynchon takes 1960s and 1970s critiques of supply-driven consumer capitalism, of which plastic was a visible emblem, and makes them more …
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Memory Machines: Exploring Moby-Dick and Gravity's Rainbow Through the History of Film
… of documentation: film media and photography. Gravity's Rainbow is often considered, after Moby-Dick, the most universally-recognized "Great American Novel". Pynchon spends a lot of time referring to mass-produced films, their effects on the global order emerging with WWII, and to the material …
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You: A study of second-person narrative in two postmodern novels
… a winter's night a traveler and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, exemplify this narrative form and, taken together, seem to exhaust its possibilities; A primary concern of this study, therefore, is to articulate these possibilities, but not merely for the sake of creating a taxonomy. Rather, …
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A deliberate resurrection of matter : a transhumanist vision (Postmodern Science; the Deathly Grammar of word and Consciousness)
… formal discipline only after the publication of Gravity's Rainbow (GR), it has been included in the overview of postmodern science since it has both direct and indirect bearing on issues included within the scope of the thesis. Section 2 will deal with the use of postmodern science, and the …
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States of savagery : cannibalism and the political in postwar fiction
… of John Hawkes's The Cannibal, Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, and Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, this dissertation elucidates the nexus of political organicism, biopolitics, and state violence. It explicates how these novels utilize the cannibal trope to clarify the relationship …
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Apocalypticisim in the fiction of William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, and Thomas Pynchon.
… work of Thomas Pynchon, offering a reading of Gravity's Rainbow (1973) which allows us to consider his treatment of such related themes as Paranoia, Holocaust, Apocalypse, and finally, Counterforce.
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Binarism and indeterminacy in the novels of Thomas Pynchor
… are V. (1963), The Crying of Lot 49, (1966) and Gravity's Rainbow (1973), and I discuss them in the order of their appearance, devoting a chapter to each. I attempt to treat different but related issues, preoccupations, themes and tropes in each of the novels to avoid repeating myself, engaging …
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When Even the Best is Bad: Thomas Pynchon's Alternatives to the Wasteland
… around which "V.," "The Crying of Lot 49" and "Gravity's Rainbos" revolve. In the most important of his nine short works, Pynchon introduces the gamut of alternatives for human action in the face of a contemporary Wasteland, the nightmare world of chaos, absurdity and corruption which is reality …
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Narrative at Risk: Accident and Teleology in American Culture, 1963-2013
… The Deer Hunter: 1978); Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow: 1973); and Sam Lipsyte's short story "The Dungeon Master": 2010). These three cases demonstrate how chance undermines the paranoid fantasy that there are external forces authoring the world. Finally, Narrative at Risk concludes …