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
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Author : Robert Crayola
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2015-12-11
The Gravity S Rainbow Handbook A Key To The Thomas Pynchon Novel written by Robert Crayola and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-11 with Study Aids categories.
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.
A Gravity S Rainbow Companion
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Author : Steven Weisenburger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
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Gravity S Rainbow Domination And Freedom
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Author : Luc Herman
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2013
Gravity S Rainbow Domination And Freedom written by Luc Herman and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Gravity S Rainbow
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
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Gravity S Rainbow
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
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A Reader S Guide To Gravity S Rainbow
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Author : Douglas Fowler
language : en
Publisher: Ann Arbor, Mich. : Ardis Publishers
Release Date : 1980
A Reader S Guide To Gravity S Rainbow written by Douglas Fowler and has been published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : Ardis Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Literary Criticism categories.
Pynchon S Mythography
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Author : Kathryn Hume
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Pynchon S Mythography written by Kathryn Hume and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Literary Criticism categories.
The exhausting plenitude of loosely connected detail in Gravity's Rainbow makes it a favorite of postmodern critics, who claim it describes a modern, random, unknowable universe. Hume expands the possibilities as she discloses a mythic structure that underlies Pynchon's work and provides easier access to his world. "Myth turns chaos into cosmos," Hume explains, describing how the profuse detail of Pynchon's book allows for the creation of a "world humankind shapes out of chaos by means of ritual and myth. . . a set of interlocking stories. . . [that] fit into a narrative sequence or mythology that conveys, supports, and challenges cultural values." Pynchon's "mythology is not rigidly consistent," Hume notes, but "several strands of mythological action. . . serve a stabilizing function in this chaotic book." Pynchon creates his own "unheroic" hero to show the way for making sense of the fragmented experience of life in the postmodern world.
A Study Guide For Thomas Pynchon S Gravity S Rainbow
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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
language : en
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Release Date : 2016-06-29
A Study Guide For Thomas Pynchon S Gravity S Rainbow written by Gale, Cengage Learning and has been published by Gale, Cengage Learning this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Study Guide for Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
Pynchon
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Author : Mark Richard Siegel
language : en
Publisher: Kennikat Press
Release Date : 1978
Pynchon written by Mark Richard Siegel and has been published by Kennikat Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Gravity S Rainbow Companion
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Author : Steven C. Weisenburger
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2011-03-15
A Gravity S Rainbow Companion written by Steven C. Weisenburger and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
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."