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A Companion to The Crying of Lot 49

2008 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2008
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Book Synopsis A Companion to The Crying of Lot 49 by : J. Kerry Grant

Download or read book A Companion to The Crying of Lot 49 written by J. Kerry Grant. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains more than 500 notes keyed to the "2006 Harper Perennial Modern Classics", the "1986 Harper Perennial Library", and the 1967 Bantam editions. This edition adds quotations and paraphrases drawn from criticism published since 1994. It includes more than fifty annotations that have been added and eighty annotations that have been expanded.

The Crying of Lot 49

2012-06-13 Fiction
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Release : 2012-06-13
Genre : Fiction
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Book Synopsis The Crying of Lot 49 by : Thomas Pynchon

Download or read book The Crying of Lot 49 written by Thomas Pynchon. This book was released on 2012-06-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years “The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes.”—The New York Times “The work of a virtuoso with prose . . . His intricate symbolic order [is] akin to that of Joyce’s Ulysses.”—Chicago Tribune “A puzzle, an intrigue, a literary and historical tour de force.”—San Francsisco Examiner The highly original satire about Oedipa Maas, a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy. When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters, and attains a not inconsiderable amount of self-knowledge.

A Companion to V.

2001-01-01 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2001-01-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis A Companion to V. by : J. Kerry Grant

Download or read book A Companion to V. written by J. Kerry Grant. This book was released on 2001-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the uninitiated, Thomas Pynchon’s V. seems to defy comprehension with its open-ended and fragmented narrative, huge cast of characters (some 150 of them), and wide range of often obscure references. J. Kerry Grant’s Companion to “V.” takes us through the novel chapter by chapter, breaking through its daunting surface by summarizing events and clarifying Pynchon’s many allusions. The Companion draws extensively from existing critical and explicative work on V. to suggest the range of interpretations that the novel can support. The hundreds of notes that comprise the Companion are keyed to the three most widely cited editions of V. Most notes are interpretive, but some also provide historical and cultural contexts or help to resurrect other nuances of meaning. Because it does not constitute a particular “reading” of, or “take” on, the novel, the Companion will appeal to a wide range of users. Rather than attempting to make final sense of the novel, the Companion exposes and demystifies Pynchon’s intent to play with our conventional attitudes about fiction.

The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon

2012 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2012
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon by : Inger H. Dalsgaard

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon written by Inger H. Dalsgaard. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential Companion to Thomas Pynchon provides all the necessary tools to unlock the challenging fiction of this postmodern master.

A Gravity's Rainbow Companion

2011-03-15 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2011-03-15
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Book Synopsis A Gravity's Rainbow Companion by : Steven C. Weisenburger

Download or read book A Gravity's Rainbow Companion written by Steven C. Weisenburger. This book was released on 2011-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

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