Selected Bibliography for reports, Thomas Pynchon (English 560, Fall 2008)

The Crying of Lot 49

N. Katherine Hayles, ‘’A Metaphor of God Knew How Many Parts’: The Engine that Drives The Crying of Lot 49.”  In New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49, ed. Patrick O’Donnell (NY” Cambridge UP, 1991), pp. 97-125.

Apter, Emily.  “On Oneworldness: Or, Paranoia as a World System.  American Literary History 18 (2006): 365-89.

Aaron S. Rosenfeld, “The 'Scanty Plot': Orwell, Pynchon, and the Poetics of Paranoia.”  Twentieth Century Literature 50 (2004): 337-67.

Kohn, Robert E.  “Seven Buddhist Themes in Pynchon’s Crying of Lot 49.”  Religion and Literature 35 (2003): 73-96.

Baxter, Charles.  “De-faced America: The Great Gatsby and The Crying of Lot 49.”  Pynchon Notes 7 (1981): 22-37.

Gravity’s Rainbow

Tölölyan, Khachig.  “War as Background in Gravity’s Rainbow.”  In Charles Clerc, ed., Approaches to Gravity’s Rainbow (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 1983), pp. 31-67.

Wolfley, Lawrence C.  “Repression’s Rainbow: The Presence of Norman O. Brown in Pynchon’s Big Novel.”  PMLA 92 (1977): 873-89.

McHugh, Patrick.  “Cultural Politics, Postmodernism, and White Guys: Affect in Gravity’s Rainbow.”  College Literature 28 (2001): 1-28.

Attewell, Nadine.  “'Bouncy Little Tunes': Nostalgia, Sentimentality, and Narrative in Gravity's Rainbow.”  Contemporary Literature 45 (2004): 22-48.

Kinsley, Alexia. “Making Sense of the Obscene and Scatological in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.” Philological Review 30 (2004): 39-57.

Baker, Jeffrey S.  “A Democratic Pynchon: Counterculture, Counterforce, and Participatory Democracy.”  Pynchon Notes 32-33 (1991): 99-131.

Varsava, Jerry A.  “Thomas Pynchon and Postmodern Liberalism.”  Canadian Review of American Studies 25 (1995): 63-100.

Useful to know about:

Weisberger, Steven.  A Gravity’s Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon’s Novel.  Athens: U Georgia P, 1988.