SOURCE: "Love and Death in and Around Vineland, U.S.A.," in Boundary 2, Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer, 1991, pp. 166-80.
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."
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