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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Thomas Pynchon"”.
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Apocalypticisim in the fiction of William S. Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, and Thomas Pynchon.
… the chapter 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 …
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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
… this challenge, 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 …
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La sexualidad en El teatro proletario de cámara y en Gravity's Rainbow : dos estéticas de lo sexual comparadas
… de Osvaldo Lamborghini y en Gravity`s Rainbow de Thomas Pynchon.
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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
… powerful 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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Hide Your Fires
… fiction in order to subvert them. Paul Auster, Thomas Pynchon, and Haruki Murakami are among many male authors who have used the genre’s formulaic structure to challenge its inherent rationality and moral universalism. While these authors destabilize convention, their female characters are often …
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"Like a Donut Maker, Only Slower": Don Delillo's Advice to Writers
… Gaddis, Robert Coover, Donald Barthelme, and Thomas Pynchon.</p>
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Spirit Don't Ever Die: Apocalypse and Denial in an Infinite Universe
… 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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The World Become Image: Nonrepresentational Discussions of Film and the Natural World
… regarding 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
… My second 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: …
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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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Spontaneous and Leaderless: The Anarchist Impulse in Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Fiction
… and the postmodern era of writers such as Thomas Pynchon and Ishmael Reed. This historical cause has been missed because radical scholarship has misunderstood anarchist theory and practice as violent and irrationalist, when it has not ignored anarchism entirely. Reexamining classic works of …
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Social paranoia and absurdist fiction in Cold War America and Soviet Russia: a comparative study
… Yuli Daniel, and American authors Joseph Heller, Thomas Pynchon and Kurt Vonnegut. Focusing on key works by each author, this research considers these texts as products of two culturally diverse, yet equally paranoid societies and explores their preoccupation with issues of spying, infiltration …
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Rocket states - an analysis of US missile culture
This thesis emerges out of a study of Thomas Pynchon’s work, from certain qualities and attributes that recur in his writing, notably the forces and hauntings of technology; the project is, further, alert to these phenomena as it is to Pynchon’s prose technique which exemplifies these aspects in …
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The wanderer: peregrinations in eldritch regions
… it is reminiscent of a work by Umberto Eco, or Thomas Pynchon. It is certainly a very enjoyable book. It is not surprising it did not find, and has never found, a general readership, however, for it contains a great number of esoteric terms and archaisms, its plot is incoherent to the extent …