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Articles tagged "thomas pynchon"

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Soundscape of the Body Politic: The Songs of Thomas Pynchon’s ‘Inherent Vice’

by Eleanore Catolico

[10.Sep.09] :. Interpolators of literature always try to figure out how we, as readers, glean the book in our hands. Arguments between the likes of Harold Bloom and the New Critics in the ‘50s, whose polemics...

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Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

by John Carvill

[28.Jan.08] :. There is sheer virtuosity and beauty in Pynchon's prose, its poetry and jazz rhythms, which he uses to build up a sense of artistic wonderment and then discharges with that little laconic snap of emotion at the end.

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Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon

by Carlin Romano [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[29.Nov.06] :. Thomas Pynchon requires commitment.

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