Twentieth-century American Literature, 6. köideChelsea House Publishers, 1985 |
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... Pynchon feeds a contemporary mania for the very idea of paranoia . In a world that has seen this particular psychosis become a principle of international politics in such forms as the cold war , of international economics in giant oil ...
... Pynchon feeds a contemporary mania for the very idea of paranoia . In a world that has seen this particular psychosis become a principle of international politics in such forms as the cold war , of international economics in giant oil ...
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... Pynchon only compares to a tower , because the literality of the original fairytale tower has been transmuted into an unnameable field of force ; and yet Pynchon's maiden is no less literally confined than is Rapunzel ( just as an ...
... Pynchon only compares to a tower , because the literality of the original fairytale tower has been transmuted into an unnameable field of force ; and yet Pynchon's maiden is no less literally confined than is Rapunzel ( just as an ...
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... Pynchon , one must remember that the artist has recognized as the first principle of aesthetic terror that an ogre's approaching footsteps are immeasurably more frightening than any portrait of the ogre himself , fangs and all . One of ...
... Pynchon , one must remember that the artist has recognized as the first principle of aesthetic terror that an ogre's approaching footsteps are immeasurably more frightening than any portrait of the ogre himself , fangs and all . One of ...
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