The Gravity S Rainbow Handbook A Key To The Thomas Pynchon Novel
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The Gravity s Rainbow Handbook A Key to the Thomas Pynchon Novel
Author | : Robert Crayola |
Publsiher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2015-12-11 |
Genre | : Study Aids |
ISBN | : 1519742428 |
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Thomas Pynchon has a reputation as a "difficult" author -- but he doesn't have to be! With this new guide, Gravity's Rainbow can be understood by the average reader. Included are: a chapter-by-chapter summary and commentary on the story, a thorough description of all major characters, a biography of Pynchon, suggestions for essay topics, and much more. This guide is guaranteed help you finish and make sense of Gravity's Rainbow -- all in a concise and easy-to-read format. Whether you are totally new to the book or just want to deepen your understanding, this guide will save you hours of struggle and frustration.
Gravity s Rainbow
Author | : Thomas Pynchon |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 768 |
Release | : 2012-06-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781101594650 |
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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 sexual conquests of one Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop, U.S. Army, corresponds identically to a map showing the V-2 impact sites. The implications of this discovery will launch Slothrop on an amazing journey across war-torn Europe, fleeing an international cabal of military-industrial superpowers, in search of the mysterious Rocket 00000, through a wildly comic extravaganza that has been hailed in The New Republic as “the most profound and accomplished American novel since the end of World War II.”
A Gravity s Rainbow Companion
Author | : Steven C. Weisenburger |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2011-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780820337647 |
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Adding some 20 percent to the original content, this is a completely updated edition of Steven Weisenburger's indispensable guide to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Weisenburger takes the reader page by page, often line by line, through the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes, and puns around which Pynchon wove his story. Weisenburger fully annotates Pynchon's use of languages ranging from Russian and Hebrew to such subdialects of English as 1940s street talk, drug lingo, and military slang as well as the more obscure terminology of black magic, Rosicrucianism, and Pavlovian psychology. The Companion also reveals the underlying organization of Gravity's Rainbow--how the book's myriad references form patterns of meaning and structure that have eluded both admirers and critics of the novel. The Companion is keyed to the pages of the principal American editions of Gravity's Rainbow: Viking/Penguin (1973), Bantam (1974), and the special, repaginated Penguin paperback (2000) honoring the novel as one of twenty "Great Books of the Twentieth Century."
A Reader s Guide to Gravity s Rainbow
Author | : Douglas Fowler |
Publsiher | : Ann Arbor, Mich. : Ardis Publishers |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UOM:39015002138512 |
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Gravity s Rainbow Domination and Freedom
Author | : Luc Herman,Steven C. Weisenburger |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780820345956 |
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Herman and Weisenburger put the novel's abiding questions about freedom in context with sixties struggles against war, restricted speech rights, ethno-racial oppression, environmental degradation, and subtle new means of social and psychological control.
A Gravity s Rainbow Companion
Author | : Steven Weisenburger |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0820310255 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon
Author | : Inger H. Dalsgaard,Luc Herman,Brian McHale |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521769747 |
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This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.
Gravity s Rainbow Domination and Freedom
Author | : Luc Herman,Steven C. Weisenburger |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 269 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780820335087 |
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When published in 1973, Gravity’s Rainbow expanded our sense of what the novel could be. Pynchon’s extensive references to modern science, history, and culture challenged any reader, while his prose bent the rules for narrative art and his satirical practices taunted U.S. obscenity and pornography statutes. His writing thus enacts freedom even as the book’s great theme is domination: humanity’s diminished “chances for freedom” in a global military-industrial system birthed and set on its feet in World War II. Its symbol: the V-2 rocket. “Gravity’s Rainbow,” Domination, and Freedom broadly situates Pynchon’s novel in “long sixties” history, revealing a fiction deeply of and about its time. Herman and Weisenburger put the novel’s abiding questions about freedom in context with sixties struggles against war, restricted speech rights, ethno-racial oppression, environmental degradation, and subtle new means of social and psychological control. They show the text’s close indebtedness to critiques of domination by key postwar thinkers such as Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, and Hannah Arendt. They detail equally powerful ways that sixties countercultural practices—free-speech resistance played out in courts, campuses, city streets, and raucously satirical underground presswork—provide a clearer bearing on Pynchon’s own satirical practices and their implicit criticisms. If the System has jacketed humanity in a total domination, may not a solitary individual still assert freedom? Or has the System captured all—even supposedly immune elites—in an irremediable dominion? Reading Pynchon’s main characters and storylines, this study realizes a darker Gravity’s Rainbow than critics have been willing to see.