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by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

Thomas Pynchon

(US postmodernist novelist)

Works

Pynchon, Thomas. "Mortality and Mercy in Vienna." Epoch 9.4 (1959): 195-213.

_____. V. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1963.

_____. V. London: Pan-Picador.

_____. The Crying of Lot 49. Novel. 1965. London: Picador, 1979.

_____. La subasta del lote 49. Trans. Antonio Prometeo Moya. Barcelona: Tusquets, 1994.

_____. Gravity's Rainbow. New York: Viking, 1973.

_____. Gravity's Rainbow. New York: Viking, 1973. London: Pan-Picador, 1975.

_____. "Entropy." Story. In Pynchon, Slow Learner.

_____. "Under the Rose." Story. In Pynchon, Slow Learner.

_____. Slow Learner: Early Stories. Boston: Little, 1984.

_____. Slow Learner. London: Picador, 1985.

_____. "Está bien ser un luddita?" Quimera 69 (1987).

_____. "La ofrenda eterna del corazón." Quimera 77 (1988).

_____. "La voz del Hamster." El Urogallo 21/22 (1988).

_____. Vineland. Novel. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990.

_____. Vineland. New York: Penguin, 1990.

_____. Mason & Dixon. Novel. 1997.

_____. Mason & Dixon. London: Random House-Vintage, 1998.*

_____. "Thomas Pynchon on Gabriel García Márquez." In Mutual Impressions: Writers from the Americas Reading One Another. Ed. Ilan Stavans. Durham (NC): Duke UP, 1999. 282-88.*

_____. Against the Day. Novel. 2006.

_____. Bleeding Edge. Novel. 2013.

Criticism

Ackroyd, Peter. Rev. of Gravity's Rainbow. By Thomas Pynchon. The Spectator 17 Nov. 1973. Rpt. in Ackroyd, The Collection. Ed. Thomas Wright. London: Chatto & Windus, 2001. 10-13.*

Basil, Verónica. "The Solitary Seeker as Depicted by Thomas Pynchon and the Surrealist Painter Varo." In Translation Across Cultures: La traducción entre el mundo hispánico y anglosajón: Relaciones lingüísticas, culturales y literarias. Actas XI Congreso AEDEAN. Ed. J. C. Santoyo. León: Universidad de León, 1989. 225-8.*

Batchelor, John Calvin. "The Ghost of Richard Farina." Soho Weekly Review (New York) 28 April 1977, 19-26.

_____. "Thomas Pynchon is not Thomas Pynchon." Soho Weekly Review (New York) 22 April 1976: 19-26.

Bewernick, Hanne. The Storyteller's Memory Palace: A Method of Interpretation Based on the Function of Memory Systems in Literature: Geoffey Chaucer, William Langland, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Thomas Pynchon and Paul Auster. (European University Studies; Series XIV: Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature, 485). Berlin: Peter Lang, 2008.*

Bradbury, Malcolm. "Malcolm's Bradbury's Last Word on Thomas Pynchon." Literary Review (July 1997).*

Brown, Donald. "A Pynchon for the Nineties." Poetics Today 18.1 (Spring 1997): 95-113.*

Caesar, Terry. "'Take Me Anyplace You Want': Pynchon's Literary Career as a Maternal Construct in Vineland."Novel 25.2: 181-199.

Chabon, Michael. "The Crying of September 11." Rev. of Bleeding Edge, by Thomas Pynchon. New York Review of Books 7 Nov. 2013.*

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/nov/07/thomas-pynchon-crying-september-11/

2013

Clark, Beverly Lyon. Reflections on Fantasy: The Mirror-Worlds of Carroll, Nabokov and Pynchon. New York: Peter Lang, 1986.*

Coates, Paul. "Unfinished Business: Thomas Pynchon and the Quest for Revolution." New Left Review (November-December 1986).

Collado Rodríguez, Francisco. "La nueva física y el sentido de la trascendencia en el (post-)modernismo: Cien años de soledad y The Crying of Lot 49." Actas del XIII Congreso Nacional de AEDEAN. Barcelona: PPU, 1991. 159-72.*

_____. "Thomas Pynchon: Testigo de un cambio (?)." In Studies in American Literature: Essays in Honor of Enrique García Díez. Ed. Antonia Sánchez Macarro. Valencia: Universitat de València, Facultat de Filologia, 1991. 295-304.*

_____. "Pynchon's Vineland: From the Text into the Story and Back Again." Atlantis 12.2 (1991): 95-106.*

_____. "History and Metafiction: V.' s Impossible Cognitive Quest." Atlantis 15 (1993): 61-78.*

_____. "Mason & Dixon or That Corrosive Pynchonian Universe: The Clash of Reason and the Imagination." In Culture and Power IV: Cultural Confrontations. Ed. Chantal Cornut-Gentille D'Arcy. Zaragoza, 1999. 165-75.*

_____. "Trespassing Limits: Pynchon's Irony and the Law of the Excluded Middle." Oklahoma City University Law Review 24.3 (Fall 1999): 471-503.*

_____. "Tracking the Female Energy of V.: Glimpses of the Pynchonian Project." In Nor Shall Diamond Die: Studies in Honour of Javier Coy. Universidad de Valencia, 2003. 71-77.

_____. "Mason & Dixon, Historiographic Metafiction, and the Unstable Reconciliation of Opposites." in American Postmodernity: Essays on the Recent Fiction of Thomas Pynchon. Ed. Ian Copestake. Oxford and Bern: Peter Lang, 2003. 71-81.

_____. El orden del caos: Literatura, política y posthumanidad en la narrativa de Thomas Pynchon. (Biblioteca Javier Coy d'estudis nord-americans). Valencia: Prensas Universitarias, 2004. (AEDEAN prize "Enrique García Díez" 2004).

Conner, Marc C. "Postmodern Exhaustion: Thomas Pynchon's Vineland and the Aesthetic of the Beautiful." Studies in American Fiction 24.1 (Spring 1996): 65-86.*

Cooley, Ronald W. "The Hothouse or the Street: Imperialism and Narrative in Pynchon's V". Modern Fiction Studies 39.2 (1993).*

Cowart, David. "Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and the Paintings of Remedios Varo." Critique 18.3 (1977): 5-17.

_____. Thomas Pynchon: The Art of Allusion. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1980.

Cuder Domínguez, Pilar. "The Crying of Lot 49 y el género policíaco." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 19/20 (1989-1990): 301-8.

Fahy, Joseph. "Thomas Pychon's V. and Mythology." Critique 18.3 (1977): 5-17.

Fokkema, Aleid. "An Early Postmodern Novel: V." In Fokkema, Postmodern Characters. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1991. 83-99.*

Fowler, Douglas. A Reader's Guide to Gravity's Rainbow. Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1980.

Friedman, Alan J., and Manfred Puetz. "Science as Metaphor: Thomas Pynchon and Gravity's Rainbow." Contemporary Literature 15.3 (1974): 345-59.

Fussell, Paul. "The Brigadier Remembers." (Pynchon). In Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory. New York: Oxford UP, 1975. 328-34. Rpt. in Mendelson, Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays 213-19.

García Mainar, Luis Miguel. "Metafiction and Social Commitment in V." Miscelánea 14 (1993): 41-56.*

Gourley, James. Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don Delillo. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

Green, Geoffrey, Donald J. Greiner, and Larry McCaffery, eds. The Vineland Papers: Critical Takes on Pynchon's Novel. Normal (IL): Dalkey Archive, 1994.*

Hausdorff, Donald. "Thomas Pynchon's Multiple Absurdities." Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature 7.3 (Autumn 1966): 258-69.

Henkle, Joseph. "Pynchon's Tapestries on the Western Wall." Modern Fiction Studies 17.2 (1971): 207-20.

Herman, Luc. Pynchon Notes 42 (1998): Approach and Avoid: Essays on Gravity's Rainbow. Antwerp.

Herman, Luc, and Bart Vervaeck. "Didn't Know Any Better: Race and Unreliable Narration in 'Low-Lands' (1960), by Thomas Pynchon." In Narrative Unreliability in the Twentieth-Century First-Person Novel. Ed. Elke D'hoker and Gunther Martens. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. 229-46.*

Herman, Luc, Inter Dalsgaard and Brian McHale, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2012.

Herman, Luc, and Steven Weisenburger. Gravity's Rainbow: Domination and Freedom. Georgia, 2013.

Hinds, Elizabeth Jane Wall, ed. The Multiple Worlds of Pynchon's Mason & Dixon: Eighteenth-Century Contexts, Postmodern Observations. New York: Camden House, 2005.

Holdsworth, Carole A. "Two Failed Scientists: Tiempo de silencio's Pedro and Pynchon's Pointsman." Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos 2 (Sevilla, 1993): 53-64.*

Hunt, John W. "Comic Escape and Anti-Vision: The Novels of Joseph Heller and Thomas Pynchon." In Adversity and Grace: Studies in Recent American Literature. Ed. Nathan A. Scott, Jr. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1968. 87-112.

_____. "Comic Escape and Anti-Vision: V. and The Crying of Lot 49 ." In Critical Essays on Thomas Pynchon. Ed. R. Pearce. Boston: Hall, 1981. 32-41.

Johnston, John. "Mediality in Vineland and Neuromancer." In Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology. Ed. Joseph Tabbi and Michael Wutz. Ithaca (NY): Cornell UP, 1997. 173-92.*

Kazin, Alfred. "Absurdity as a Contemporary Style: Ellison to Pynchon." In Kazin, Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer. (An Atlantic Monthly Press Book). Boston: Little, Brown, 1973. 243-82.*

Kermode, Frank. "Decoding the Trystero." In Approaches to Poetics. Ed. Seymour Chatman. New York: Columbia UP, 1973. 68-74.

Kidd, James. "Book Review: Bleeding Edge, by Thomas Pynchon." The Independent 29 Sept. 2013.*

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/book-review-bleeding-edge-by-thomas-pynchon-8844890.html

2013

Kittler, Friedrich. "Media and Drugs in Pynchon's Second World War." In Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology. Ed. Joseph Tabbi and Michael Wutz. Ithaca (NY): Cornell UP, 1997. 157-72.*

Krafft, John M. "'And How Far-Fallen': Puritan Themes in Gravity's Rainbow." Critique 18.3 (1977): 55-73.

Léonet, Y. M. (Louvain). "Shamefaced Nostalgia: Pynchon's Vineland and the Politics of Postmodernism." BAS 1.1 (1996): 131-40.*

Levine, George. "V-2." Partisan Review 40 (1973): 517-29.

Levine, George, and David Leverenz. "Mindful Pleasures." In Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon. Ed. George Levine and David Leverenz. Boston: Little, 1976. 3-11.

_____, eds. Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon. Boston: Little, 1976.

Leverenz, David. "On Trying to Read Gravity's Rainbow." In Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon. Ed. George Levine and David Leverenz. Boston: Little, 1976.

Liste Noya, José. "The Fictions of Thomas Pynchon: Fantasy and the Fantastic in the Postmodern World." Diss. U de Santiago de Compostela, 1994.

_____. "Ghostbusters: Fantasy and Postmodern Death in Thomas Pynchon's Vineland." Journal of Narrative Technique 27.2 (Spring 1997): 149-171.*

Martín Salván, Paula. (U de Córdoba, ). Rev. of Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo. By James Gourley. Miscelánea 52 (2015): 137-40.*

Martínez Martínez, María Ángeles. "Function and Linguistic Organization: An Analysis of Character and Setting in Thomas Pynchon's Under the Rose Rewritten in V." Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense 4 (1996): 105-129.

_____. "Transitivity: Contribution to Character Construction in Thomas Pynchon's V Chapter 3." In Martínez Vázquez, Montserrat (ed.) Transitivity Revisited. Ed. Montserrat Martínez Vázquez. Huelva: Universidad de Huelva, 1998. 277-296.

_____. "From "Under the Rose to V.: A Linguistic Approach to Human Agency in Pynchon's Fiction." Poetics Today 23.4 (2002): 633-656.

_____. "The Foregrounding Function of Nominalizations in Narrative Discourse: A Case Study of Pynchon's 'Under the Rose' and V. Chapter 3." In Fifty Years of English Studies in Spain […] Actas del XXVI Congreso de AEDEAN, ed. Ignacio Palacios et al. Santiago de Compostela: U de Santiago de Compostela, 2003. 655-62.*

Mateo Álvaro, Leopoldo. "La visión apocalíptica de Thomas Pynchon." In Actas del Primer Congreso de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos: Granada 15 al 17 de diciembre 1977. Granada: U de Granada, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Departamento de Filología Inglesa, 1978. 49-52.*

Mattessich, Stefan. "Imperium, Misogyny and Postmodern Parody in Thomas Pynchon's V." ELH 65.2 (1998): 503.

McConnell, Frank D. Four Postwar American Novelists: Bellow, Mailer, Barth, and Pynchon. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1977.

McHale, Brian. "Modernist Reading, Post-Modern Text: The Case of Gravity's Rainbow." Poetics Today 1.1-2 (1979).

Mendelson, Edward. "Gravity's Encyclopedia." In Levine and Leverenz, Mindful Pleasures 161-95.

_____. "Pynchon's Gravity." Yale Review 62.4 (1973): 624-31.

_____. "The Sacred, the Profane, and The Crying of Lot 49." In Mendelson, Pynchon 112-46.

_____, ed. Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs (NJ): Prentice-Hall, 1978. (Introduction, 1-15).

Moody, Rick. "Surveyors of the Enlightenment." Review of Mason & Dixon. By Thomas Pynchon. Atlantic Monthly 280.1 (July 1997): 106-110.*

Morgan, Speer. "Gravity's Rainbow: What's the Big Idea?" Modern Fiction Studies 23.2 (1977): 199-216.

Morrison, Philip. Rev. of Gravity's Rainbow. Scientific American 229 (Oct. 1973): 131. Rpt. in Mendelson, Pynchon 191-92.

Nohrnberg, James. "Pynchon's Paraclete." In Mendelson, Pynchon 147-61.

Ozier, Lance W. "Antipointsman / Antimexico: Some Mathematical Imagery in Gravity's Rainbow." Critique 16.2 (1974): 73-90.

Patteson, Richard. "What Stencil Knew: Structure and Certitude in Pynchon's V. " Critical Essays on Thomas Pynchon. Ed. R. Pearce. Boston: Hall and Co, 1981. 10-31.

Pearce, R., ed. Critical Essays on Thomas Pynchon. Ed. R. Pearce. Boston: Hall and Co, 1981.

Pérez Gil, Mª del Mar. "Thomas Pynchon: El "thriller" como experimento metafictivo en The Crying of Lot 49. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 22/23 (1991): 217-25.

Pérez-Llantada Auría, Mª del Carmen. "From the New Physics into Linguistic Dissolution: Thomas Pynchon's Entropy." In Science, Literature, and Interpretation. Ed. F. Collado. Zaragoza: Secretariado de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 1991. 157-74.

_____. "Beyond Linguistic Barriers: The Musical Fuge Structure of Thomas Pynchon's 'Entropy'." Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica 17 (1991): 127-40.

_____. Del lenguaje cinematográfico al científico: Hacia un discurso integrador en las novelas de Thomas Pynchon. Ph.D.Diss. U of Zaragoza, 1992.

_____. "Thomas Pynchon's Vineland: Undermining Signifying Practices." Atlantis 14 (1992): 169-82.

_____. "Fractal Geometry and Meaning Dissemination in Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49." Atlantis 17.1-2 (1995; issued 1997): 229-44.*

_____. "The Escaping Presence of the Female in Thomas Pynchon's Novels." Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica 25 (1999, issued 2000): 239-51.*

Pettman, Dominic. "Thomas Pynchon." In Postmodernism: The Key Figures. Ed. Hans Bertens and Joseph Natoli. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.*

Plater, William M. The Grim Phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1978.

Poirier, Richard. "The Importance of Thomas Pynchon." Twentieth-Century Literature 21.2 (1975): 151-62. Rpt. in Levine and Leverenz, Mindful Pleasures 15-29.

_____. "Rocket Power." 1973. In Mendelson, Pynchon 167-78.

"Pynchon, Thomas." Contemporary Authors. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1968.

Pynchon Notes 42-43: Approach and Avoid: Essays on Gravity's Rainbow. (Spring-Fall 1998).

Raper, Julius Rowan. "Between Sartre and Freud: Thomas Pynchon's V." In Raper, Narcissus from Rubble: Competing Models of Character in Contemporary British and American Fiction. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1992. 37-59.*

Ravichandran. T. Postmodern Identity. Foreword by Christopher Rollason. Jaipur: RBSA Publishers, 2007. (John Barth, Thomas Pynchon and the postmodern).

Robson, David. "Frye, Derrida, Pynchon, and the Apocalyptic Space of Postmodern Fiction." In Postmodern Apocalype. Ed. Richard Dellamora. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1995. 61-78.*

Rosenberg, Martin. "Invisibility, the War Machine, and Prigogine: Dissipative Structures and Aggregating Processes in the Zone of Gravity's Rainbow." Pynchon Notes 29 (forthcoming 1994).

Rosenbaum, Jonathan. "A Reply." 1976. Rpt. in Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Edward Mendelson. Englewood Cliffs (NJ): Prentice-Hall, 1978.

Rull Suárez, Ana. Rev. of Terrorism and Temporality in the Works of Thomas Pynchon and Don Delillo. By James Gourley. Atlantis 37.1 (June 2015): 217-20.*

Rushdie, Salman. "Thomas Pynchon." 1990. In Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands. 1991. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992. 352-57.*

Safer, E. B. The Contemporary American Comic Epic: The Novels of Barth, Pynchon, Gaddis and Kesey. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1989.