The Grim Phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon |
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... fiction and history and has in recent decades been overworked . In Pynchon's fiction , entropy literally measures the disorganization of a closed system . Pynchon is unusual , too , in using the concepts not in isolation but in their ...
... fiction and history and has in recent decades been overworked . In Pynchon's fiction , entropy literally measures the disorganization of a closed system . Pynchon is unusual , too , in using the concepts not in isolation but in their ...
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... fiction is not philosophy , Pynchon does not have to use the Tractatus consistently . Instead , it becomes a paradigm implying much that Pynchon need not say . The Tractatus appears in Pynchon's fiction in a variety of references to ...
... fiction is not philosophy , Pynchon does not have to use the Tractatus consistently . Instead , it becomes a paradigm implying much that Pynchon need not say . The Tractatus appears in Pynchon's fiction in a variety of references to ...
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... fiction of continuity , the fiction of cause and effect , the fiction of a human- ized history endowed with ' reason ' " ( 286 ) . In order to create a world that reveals the world as a closed system , Pynchon is willing to pay the ...
... fiction of continuity , the fiction of cause and effect , the fiction of a human- ized history endowed with ' reason ' " ( 286 ) . In order to create a world that reveals the world as a closed system , Pynchon is willing to pay the ...
Contents
Baedeker Land | 65 |
Death Transfigured | 135 |
In Which Various Things Come Together | 187 |
Copyright | |
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