A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel Revised and Exp Edition Contributor(s): Weisenburger, Steven (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820328073 ISBN-13: 9780820328072 Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: November 2006 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Reference |
Dewey: 813.54 |
LCCN: 2006011956 |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.9" W x 9" L (1.45 lbs) 440 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 304 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 Weisenburger takes the reader page by page, often line by line, through the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes, and puns around which Pynchon wove his story.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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