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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Pynchon, Thomas"”.
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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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States of savagery : cannibalism and the political in postwar fiction
… Through analyses 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 …