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[John M. Krafft]

                    _PYNCHON NOTES_ 30-31
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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) 1994
  John M. Krafft, Bernard Duyfhuizen, and Khachig Tololyan

                       ISSN 0278-1891

                   Contents of _PN_ 30-31

_Vineland_ and Dystopian Fiction
  M. Keith Booker                                               5

"Dangerously Absent Dreamers": Genealogy, History and the
Political Left in _Vineland_
  Barbara L. Pittman                                           39

The Economy of Consumption: The Entropy of Leisure in
Pynchon's _Vineland_
  David Thoreen                                                53

Chants of Dispossession and Exile: the Yuroks in _Vineland_
  Rosita Becke and Dirk Vanderbeke                             63

Imaginary Locales in Pynchon's _Vineland_
  Mark D. Hawthorne                                            77

Invisibility, the War Machine and Prigogine: Physics, Philosophy
and the Threshold of Historical Consciousness in Pynchon's Zone
  Martin E. Rosenberg                                          91

The Romance of the '60s: Self, Community and the
Ethical in _The Crying of Lot 49_
  John Farrell                                                139

Luddism in "Under the Rose"
  Eric Carl Link                                              157

The Power of Love in _Chimera_ and _V._
  Darcy E. Howe                                               165

Profane Illuminations: Benny Profane, Herbert Stencil and
Walter Benjamin's _Flaneur_
  Louis P. Simon, Jr.                                         172

Re-reading _The Crying of Lot 49_: A Note on the _Oz_ Connection
  Angela Reich                                                179

A Note on "Pierce Inverarity"
  Robert Brazeau                                              185

Slothrop Unbound: Shelley's Prometheus and _Gravity's Rainbow_
  Raymond Benoit                                              188

Between Hammerfall and Hammerstroke (Review)
  Robert R. Hill                                              192

Celebrate, Celebrate (Review)
  Richard Sullivan                                            194

In the Matrix (Review)
  Reginald Martin                                             198

Twayne in Vain (Review)
  Michael Berube                                              201

Revisiting Postmodernism (Review)
  David Seed                                                  205

Where Has All the Theory Gone? (Review)
  Hanjo Berressem                                             210

Other Books Received                                          214

Notes                                                         215

Bibliography (-1994)                                          217

Contributors                                                  229

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