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Pynchon’s Creative Misuse of Entropy
Orbit, 2017 The article argues that David Letzler’s critique of Thomas Pynchon’s “Entropy,” while accurate in some respects, is misguided in its attempt to close down interpretations of the short story that focus on its use of entropy, both in the field of ...
Albert Rolls
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Artificial Intelligence: should Postmodern America be worried? A Sketch of Answers with Thomas Pynchon’s V. [PDF]
Akofena: Whoever knows Thomas Pynchon, knows a novelist with great interest in addressing the issues of America in the new era. However humourous he sounds, he gives evidence in many instances of the kind of apocalyptic writer he is.
Yao Patrice KOKO
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The Vineland Guide to Contemporary Rebellion
Orbit: Writing Around Pynchon, 2012 This essay argues that a shift occurs in Thomas Pynchon’s oeuvre with the novel Vineland, specifically with respect to power systems and resistance. Previous novels by Pynchon represented power structures as abstract, nearly supernatural systems that ...
Sean Carswell
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Orbit, 2013 Among the cultural texts used by Thomas Pynchon in Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) figures a classic fairy tale of “Hansel and Gretel”. It is here that the author initially develops the theme of bad parents and victimized children, a subject elaborated ...
Anahita Rouyan
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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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The counternarrative in early Pynchon: Race and power in “The Secret Integration”
Orbis Litterarum, Volume 80, Issue 1, Page 19-35, February 2025.Abstract The issue of race and power in “The Secret Integration” requires re‐examination. Politically oriented readers have characterized the plot as forms of alignment with racism and segregation, whereas readers focusing on the esthetics and development of the authorship have to some degree recognized the role of the counternarrative in this early ...
Kristian Larsson
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Postnational Visions in Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day
JAm It!, 2019 Thomas Pynchon is very often associated with the creation of alternative worlds and the category of postmodernism. These alternative realities have been analyzed by prominent scholars from different standpoints. For instance, the relation between Pynchon’
Ali Dehdarirad
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Arquivo, guerra e entretenimento: Pynchon como literatura documental a partir de Derrida e Kittler
Revista de Estudos Literários da UEMS - REVELL, 2021 Partindo do conceito de arquivo desenvolvido por Derrida, este artigo explora as questões midiáticas e tecnológicas, mencionadas por Derrida na sua conceptualização, em diálogo com a teoria da mídia e da literatura de Friedrich Kittler.
Leonardo Petersen Lamha
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Os porquês de Wanda Tinasky não ser Thomas Pynchon – um estudo de caso (I)
Texto Digital, 2018 Este trabalho relata uma experiência prática em que utilizo algumas funcionalidades do software Neolo para analisar três grupos de textos: 1. Escritos não ficcionais de Thomas Pynchon; 2. As cartas de Wanda Tinasky; e, 3.
Saulo Cunha de Serpa Brandão
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