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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Pynchon"”.
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A Proper Secularism: Beyond Ideology in Bulgakov, Trilling, Updike and Pynchon
… 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 …
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Metaphormosis: An Examination of Communication and Community in Barth, Beckett and Pynchon
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Apocalypticisim in the fiction of William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, and Thomas Pynchon.
… include the Revelation of John and Thomas Pynchon's short story Entropy (1959); theoretical works by Frank Kermode, John Barth, and Jean Baudrillard (amongst others) are also discussed. Chapter One traces the development of William S. Burroughs's apocalyptic sensibility through readings of …
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Net work : social networks, disruptive agency, and innovation in Howells, Fitzgerald, Heller, Pynchon, and Gibson
… Milo Minderbinder (Catch-22, 1961), Thomas Pynchon's Pierce Inverarity (The Crying of Lot 49, 1965), and William Gibson's Cayce Pollard (Pattern Recognition, 2003). These characters do unusual things with and from the subject positions in which they find themselves, and—whether or not they …
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'The Screen Is A Dim Page Spread Before Us': Thomas Pynchon, Digital-Age Fiction, and the Theory of the Reflexive Correlative
… my thesis alights on the writer Thomas Pynchon, whose work has borne witness to digital technology at practically every stage of its development. I argue that what makes Pynchon’s novels succeed in this area is that they go about representing the digital world not by merely describing …
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Memory Machines: Exploring Moby-Dick and Gravity's Rainbow Through the History of Film
… 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 occurrence of film technology as it relates to the book as a material artifact. For Pynchon, the backlots built …
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'I Heard Beauty Dying': The Cultural Critique of Plastic in Gravity's Rainbow
This essay attempts to 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 …
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Safe Space: A novel and accompanying critical study into the participatory culture in fandom and a historiographic approach to the fragmentation of popular culture in select novels by Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon.
… case studies of Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon, the dissertation examines how historiographic metafiction can illuminate the cyclical nature of cultural conflicts. By analysing the thematic and narrative techniques of these authors, the study demonstrates how their works provide a …
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American gadgets: cybernetics, consumer electronics, and twentieth-century us fiction
… functions that allow authors such as Thomas Pynchon, William S. Burroughs, Neal Stephenson, Pat Cadigan, and Richard Powers to explore the complexities of humankind’s responses to technological and digital innovation
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When Even the Best is Bad: Thomas Pynchon's Alternatives to the Wasteland
Four of Thomas Pynchon's virtually ignored short stories are cruclal to a full appreciation and understanding of his larger works; contained in them, in seminal form, is every theme around which "V.," "The Crying of Lot 49" and "Gravity's Rainbos" revolve. In the most important of his nine short …
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"Like a Donut Maker, Only Slower": Don Delillo's Advice to Writers
… Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, and Thomas Pynchon.</p>
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A Streetcar Named Kanye West
… from other narrative disasters such as: Finding Pynchon and that one about Marcella Hamilton with that guy. In this one, Kanye West and his partner Dog the Bounty Hunter find themselves involved in another zany mystery, filled with slapsticks and low-wits. In this powerhouse action adventure, …
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Spirit Don't Ever Die: Apocalypse and Denial in an Infinite Universe
… as protagonist. Second, “Entropy” by Thomas Pynchon looses full-scale entropy on humans both witting and unwitting, framing human consciousness and ultimately inconsequential. </p>
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Metaphysical detectives and postmodern spaces, or the case of the missing boundaries
… explores the contemporary American novels of Pynchon, Acker, Reed, Auster, DeLillo, and McElroy as well as the two recent films Dark City and The Thirteenth Floor and their dramatization of the production of twentieth-century social space. I approach these works as metaphysical detective …
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The World Become Image: Nonrepresentational Discussions of Film and the Natural World
… the status of cinema in the work of Thomas Pynchon. This chapter argues that Gravity’s Rainbow, Inherent Vice, and Paul Thomas Anderson’s film adaptation of the novel, configure the cinema as a media ecology.
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Rewriting Eastern Wisdom: Buddhism and Hinduism in American Literature from Jack Kerouac to Maxine Hong Kingston
… chapter, "Secret Arts and Paranoia: Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo," shows how Pynchon's Vineland and DeLillo's Underworld demystify secret Eastern knowledge in order to challenge the assumption that secrecy warrants paranoia. My third chapter, "Asian Religion and African Dreams: Alice …
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"Laughter in the Dark": Belief and Literature in a Secular Age
… Faiths: Postsecular Fiction in the Age of Pynchon and Morrison (2007), a “crasser” spirituality, so to speak. But even between these two apparent, yet ultimately, false poles—the religious and the secular—there are others for whom the concern falls somewhere in the murky in-between, like …
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