Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow," arguably one of the greatest works of fiction in this century, has often been considered despairing, absurdist, or niilistic. Now, in a monumental effort to make Pynchon's work more accessible, Thoma... T Moore 被引量: 33发表: 1987年 ...
Surviving the end: Apocalypse, Evolution, and Entropy in Bernard Malamud, KurtVonnegut, and Thomas Pynchon.". Peter,Freese. Critique . 1995Freese,Peter."Surviving the End: Apocalypse, Evolution, and Entropy in Bernard Malamud, Vonnegut, and Thomas Pynchon". Critique . 1995...
Freese,Peter."Surviving the End: Apocalypse, Evolution, and Entropy in Bernard Malamud, Kurt Vonnegut, and Thomas Pynchon,".Critique. 1995—. “Surviving the End: Apocalypse, Evolution, and Entropy in Bernard Malamud, Kurt Vonnegut, and Thomas Pynchon.” Critique 36.3 (1995): 163–76....
(Newman, 84) Like the demon, Oedipa "collects data on each and every one" (Pynchon, 72) and "connects the world of thermodynamics to the world of information flow" (Pynchon, 73). As Newman describes it "the Demon does what Oedipa must learn to do: consciously resist entropy by sense...
The exploration of scientific visions of the world is a major concern for Thomas Pynchon. Entropy has become an important metaphor of the contemporary world's tendency towards redundancy and incoherence. Pynchon's vision is revealed through his complicated plots, his idealistic characters and a ...
Thomas Pynchon is an American novelist and short-story writer whose works combine black humour and fantasy to depict human alienation in the chaos of modern society. After earning a B.A. in English from Cornell University in 1958, Pynchon spent a year in