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[John M. Krafft]

                    _PYNCHON NOTES_ 28-29
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                       John M. Krafft
                 Miami University--Hamilton
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                     Bernard Duyfhuizen
                     English Department
             University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire
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                      Khachig Tololyan
                     English Department
                     Wesleyan University
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                      Copyright (c) 1992
  John M. Krafft, Bernard Duyfhuizen, and Khachig Tololyan

                       ISSN 0278-1891

                   Contents of _PN_ 28-29

Existential Subjectivity on Trial: _The Crying of
Lot 49_ and the Politics of Despair
   Lois Tyson                                              5

"The Enigma His Efforts Had Created": Thomas Pynchon
and the Legacy of America
   Jeffrey Louis Decker                                   27

Not Quite so Crazy After all These Years: Pynchon's
Creative Engineer
   J. Kerry Grant                                         43

A Note On "Porky Pig and the Anarchist" in _The Crying
of Lot 49_ and _Gravity's Rainbow_
   Mark Irwin                                             55

Anachronism Intended: _Gravity's Rainbow_ in the
Sociopolitical Sixties
   Frederick Ashe                                         59

Systemic Transgression and Cultural Rewriting
in Pynchon's Fiction
   Marcel Cornis-Pope                                     77

Systemic Waste and the Body Boundary
in Pynchon's Fiction
   Ron Jenkins                                            91

Have You Seen This Man?
   Paul Coleman                                          112

Tubed Out and Movie Shot in Pynchon's _Vineland_
   Johan Callens                                         115

Movie Music in _Gravity's Rainbow_
   Robert L. McLaughlin                                  143

Eight Facts About _Thomas Pynchon, His Pavane
and Galliard_, A Piece for Cello and Piano
   David Ocker                                           147

Beating the Binaries (Reviews)
   Theodore D. Kharpertian                               151

How to Write an Essay on Thomas Pynchon (Review)
   Alec McHoul                                           157

Other Books Received                                     169

Notes                                                    171

Bibliography (-1992)                                     173

Contributors                                             183

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