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Thomas Pynchon: The Art of Allusion
William M. Plater,David Cowart +1 more
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This article is published in South Atlantic Review.The article was published on 1981-01-01. It has received 27 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Allusion.read more
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The Gaucho Sells Out: Thomas Pynchon and Argentina
TL;DR: Pynchon's "Stencilized" sections of the book as mentioned in this paper trace the avatars and emanations of the mysterious V through moments of historical crisis, taking a lavish detour to Florence, circa 1899, where rumours of a seditious figure known only as "The Gaucho" are causing much consternation at the Venezuelan Consulate.
Postmodern American Gothic: The politics of fear in the works of Thomas Pynchon, David Lynch, and Steve Erickson
TL;DR: Paice as discussed by the authors argues that the works of artists Thomas Pynchon, David Lynch, and Steve Erickson signify the post-modern American Gothic through their production of a symbolic economy of fear, paranoia, and dread.
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“Sell Out With Me Tonight”: Popular Music, Commercialization and Commodification in Vineland, The Crying of Lot 49, and V.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the role of the popular musician in the production of consumer culture, focusing on McClintic Sphere (V. ), The Paranoids (Lot 49 ), and Billy Barf and the Vomitones ( Vineland ).
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“A City of the Future”: Gravity’s Rainbow and the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair
TL;DR: Pynchon's early works were tutored by Henry Adams's vision of the Dynamo at a World's Fair, the Paris of 1900, and their history of the continuity, from Nazi Germany to Nixon's Cold War United States, of militarism and empire as discussed by the authors.
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Singing Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow: Interfaces of Song, Narrative, and Sonic Performance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the novel's acoustic background, pointing to the formal structure of songs and its role in locating singing human voices in opposition to noises emitted by technological devices such as V2 rockets.
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The Gaucho Sells Out: Thomas Pynchon and Argentina
TL;DR: Pynchon's "Stencilized" sections of the book as mentioned in this paper trace the avatars and emanations of the mysterious V through moments of historical crisis, taking a lavish detour to Florence, circa 1899, where rumours of a seditious figure known only as "The Gaucho" are causing much consternation at the Venezuelan Consulate.
Postmodern American Gothic: The politics of fear in the works of Thomas Pynchon, David Lynch, and Steve Erickson
TL;DR: Paice as discussed by the authors argues that the works of artists Thomas Pynchon, David Lynch, and Steve Erickson signify the post-modern American Gothic through their production of a symbolic economy of fear, paranoia, and dread.
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“Sell Out With Me Tonight”: Popular Music, Commercialization and Commodification in Vineland, The Crying of Lot 49, and V.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the role of the popular musician in the production of consumer culture, focusing on McClintic Sphere (V. ), The Paranoids (Lot 49 ), and Billy Barf and the Vomitones ( Vineland ).
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“A City of the Future”: Gravity’s Rainbow and the 1962 Seattle World’s Fair
TL;DR: Pynchon's early works were tutored by Henry Adams's vision of the Dynamo at a World's Fair, the Paris of 1900, and their history of the continuity, from Nazi Germany to Nixon's Cold War United States, of militarism and empire as discussed by the authors.
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Singing Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow: Interfaces of Song, Narrative, and Sonic Performance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the novel's acoustic background, pointing to the formal structure of songs and its role in locating singing human voices in opposition to noises emitted by technological devices such as V2 rockets.