The American novelist Thomas Pynchon (born 1937) is best known for V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland, and Mason & Dixon, complex fictions noted for their encyclopedic erudition and parodistic, labyrinthine plots. Thomas Ruggle...
Thomas Pynchon 's ancestral roots go deep into the soil of America--an appropriate genealogy for a writer whose overriding concern in his fictional project is the construction of "America" and the necessary conditions for living within that construction....
Thomas Pynchon 's willingness to address the most important cultural and social issues makes him an important writer. He depicts the plight of contemporary humanity caught in, rather than sustained by, a culture that celebrates technology and death rathe...
Vineland is a 1990 novel by Thomas Pynchon, a postmodern tale of life in the 1980's United States. Its central locale is Vineland, California, a fictional small town in California's Anderson Valley (perhaps based upon Boonville). The title Vineland may...
DON'T MIND admitting that I was one of those long-suffering readers who eagerly awaited Thomas Pynchon's new novel. Gravity's now, Pynchon's 1973 epic, was a daunting, compelling work, full of lapel-clutching intimidation, lapinfrom-chapeau hocus-pocus, and fascinating tonal leap froggings-a Nazi opera conducted by Spike...
Vineland-a multimedia semithriller, a Star Wars for the counterculture-is easier to read than anything else by Thomas Pynchon except The Crying of Lot 49. Like Crying, it's a brief for the disinherited and dispossessed, the outlaws and outcasts of an underground America. Also like...
Residents in the rural New Jersey community of Vineland are used to seeing wild turkey, the occasional deer and once in a great while, even a bear. But reports that a black panther has been roaming the woods have some people worried.Residents over the weekend...
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A 7-year-old boy hanged himself at his home in southern New Jersey, a prosecutor said Friday in the latest sign of an increase in suicides by young people and adolescents. The boy, who has not been identified by authorities, was discovered...
In the following essay, Wilde examines the major themes, narrative presentation, and parody in Vineland. Citing the problem of indeterminacy and equivocation in the novel, Wilde contends that "Vineland seems from time to time to become what it beholds; a busy, pop version of America more attentive to momentary surfaces than to depth."
In the following essay, Cowart examines Pynchon's mytho-historical perspective in Vineland, drawing comparison between the literary aesthetics of Pynchon and James Joyce.
