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Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2015 Reminiscing about his younger self: “I mean I can’t very well just 86 [in American slang, to “86” is to eject, remove, or discard someone or something, J.R.N.] this guy from my life. On the other hand, if through some as yet undeveloped technology I were
Jonathan R. Nitschke
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Book Reviews, Special Pynchon-Scholarship-in-Languages-Other-than-English Edition, 2020
Orbit, 2021 Book Reviews, of:Pióro & Paryż (eds) – Thomas Pynchon [Polish]Aliaga (ed) – Thomas Pynchon [Spanish]Nagano –トマス・ピンチョン──帝国、戦争、システム、そして選びに与れぬ者の生 [Japanese – Thomas Pynchon: Empire, War, System, and the Lives of Preterites]Oleha – Perspektivy Konce:
Ali Chetwynd +6 more
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History, Volume 108, Issue 382, Page 407-420, September 2023., 2023 Abstract The main aim of this article is to reconstruct the evolutions and the political implications of the Italian historical novel between the nineteenth and twenty‐first centuries. The starting hypothesis is that the historical novel has always performed a vicarious function with respect to traditional historiography.
ADRIANO VINALE
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History, Volume 108, Issue 381, Page 303-327, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Tracing patterns of letter interception across the Alps provides a new geography of Habsburg communications, espionage, and counter‐espionage in seventeenth‐century Europe. Using the correspondence of the Tassis family of imperial and Spanish postmasters, this article demonstrates that despite increasingly martial rhetoric, battles in ...
RACHEL MIDURA
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The “Inherent Vices” of Policy Design: Uncertainty, Maliciousness, and Noncompliance
Risk Analysis, Volume 42, Issue 5, Page 920-930, May 2022., 2022 Abstract Policy designs must not only “work” in the sense of accomplishing their goals but must also work in their intended fashion. Most research to date has focused on the former topic and dwells on the technical aspects of how various tools and instruments could be utilized to achieve the aims and goals of policymakers. This branch of research tends
Michael Howlett, Ching Leong
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An Atmosphere of Malaise: Failures of Detection in Friedrich Glauser's Matto regiert (1936)
The German Quarterly, Volume 94, Issue 1, Page 99-115, Winter 2021., 2021 Friedrich Glauser's Motto regiert (1936) tells a story with parabolic qualities: Sergeant Studer must investigate a murder that has taken place in a Swiss psychiatric clinic. The social and political issues that are roiling Europe in the years leading up to World War Two find condensed expression in this microcosm.
Martin Rosenstock
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Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies, 2021 This article examines the speed and mobility of surveying of pre-revolutionary America in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon (1997). Pynchon contrasts the extremely slow and directed physical drawing of the Mason-Dixon line with the infinitely fast and ...
Burak Sezer
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'Pynchon's Public Profile (or lack thereof) – A Personal View’.
Orbit, 2012 Letter about Thomas Pynchon's profile and 'Pynchon In Public Day' event.
John Dee
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İmgelem, 2023 Thomas Pynchon’s novels are noted for their postmodernist characteristics. Some of his novels also include certain features of detective fiction. In The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), the focus of Oedipa –a housewife whose name alludes to Oedipus of Sophocles—
Ahmet Koç
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Orbit, 2020 Book Reviews, of:Dalsgaard (ed) – Thomas Pynchon in ContextChetwynd, Freer, Maragos (eds) – Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and GenderMogultay – The Ruins of Urban Modernity: Thomas Pynchon’s Against the DayAlworth – Site Reading: Fiction ...
Ali Dehdarirad +8 more
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