McHoul and Wills criticism

[Fakhereddine Berrada]

On Wed, 2 Apr 1997 Djuna35 at aol.com wrote:

> I'm doing some background reading, prepping to teach 'Lot49' again, and I
> decided to delve into the  Alec McHoul and David Wills book, 'Writing

Here are some suggestions to pick from depending on time and 
availability.  I took the liberty to bullet-mark those that students 
generally find helpful. Beware! The list needs updating. Enjoy,
		
		 Fakhereddine.

Coates, Paul, 1984. "Unfinished Business : Thomas Pynchon and the  Quest 
for 	Revolution".  New Left Review, No. 160, pp. 122-128.


Conroy, Mark, 1989. "The American Way and Its Double in The Crying of Lot 
49", 	Pynchon Notes 24-25, Spring-Fall, pp. 45-70.


Cooper, Peter L., 1981. Signs and Symptoms: Thomas Pynchon and the 	
Contemporary World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981). 


¥	Cowart, David, 1980.  The Art of Allusion  (Carbondale: Southern 
Illinois University 	Press).

Davis, Ron Murray, 1972. "Parody, Paranoia, and the Dead End of  Language 
in  The 	Crying of Lot 49",  Genre, Vol. v, No. 4,  December, pp. 367-377.

Decker, Jeffrey Louis , 1991. ""The Enigma His Efforts Had Created": 
Thomas Pynchon and the Legacy of America", Pynchon Notes 28-9, Spring-	
Fall, 27-42.


¥	Dugdale, John, , 1990. Thomas Pynchon:  Allusive Parables of 
Power  (London: The 	Macmillan Press  Ltd.).


¥	Duyfhuizen, Bernard, 1991	"Hushing Sick Transmissions": 
Disrupting Story in The Crying of Lot 49", in 	O'Donnell, ed., New 
Essays on The Crying of Lot 49 (Cambridge: Cambridge 	University 
Press). 


Hall, Chris , 1991. "Behind the Hierogliphic Streets": Pynchon's Oedipa 
Maas and 	the Dialectics of Reading.", Critique,  Vol 33, No. 1, 
Fall, pp. 63-77.


Henkle, R. B., 1978.  "Pynchon's Tapestries on the Western Wall", in  E. 
Mendelson, 	ed., Pynchon: A Collection of Critical  Essays 
(Englewood  Cliffs, N. J. : 	Prentice and Hall Inc.).

Hite, Molly , 1983. Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon 
(Columbus: Ohio 	State University Press).


Holquist, Michael , 1971. "Whodunit and Other  Questions: Metaphysical 
detective 	Stories in Post-War  Fiction", New Literary History, Vol. 
3, No. 1, Autumn, pp. 	135-156.


Johnston, John, 1991. "Toward the Schizo-Text: Paranoia as Semiotic 
Regime in The 	Crying of Lot 49", In O'Donnell, ed.,  New Esssays on The 
Crying of Lot 49 	(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).


¥	Kermode, Frank. 1986. "The Use of Codes in The Crying of Lot 49, 
in Harold Bloom, ed.,  Modern 	Critical Views: Thomas Pynchon (New York: 
Chelsea House Publishers).


Kolodny, Annette, and Peters, Daniel James, 1973. "Pynchon's The Crying 
of Lot 49: 	the Novel as Subversive Experience", Modern Fiction 
Studies, Vol. 19, pp. `
	79-87.


Mangel, Anne , 1976.  "Maxwell's Demon, Entropy,  Information: The Crying 
of Lot 	49",  in Levine and Leverenz, eds.,  Mindful Pleasures: Essays On 
Thomas 	Pynchon  (Boston: Little, Brown, and  Company).
Mendelson, Edward, 1978. "The Sacred, The Profane, and  The Crying of Lot 
49"  in  Mendelson, 	ed., Pynchon: A Collection of Critical  Essays 
(Englewood  Cliffs, N. J. : 	Prentice and Hall 	Inc.).


¥	O'Donnell, Patrick, ed., 1991. New Essays on The Crying of Lot 
49,   	(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).


¥	Petillon, Pierre-Yves , 1991. "A Re-cognition of Her Errand Into 
the Wilderness", in Patrick 	O'Donnell, ed., New Essays on the Crying 
of Lot 49 (Cambridge: Cambridge 	University 	Press).


Schaub,  Thomas H., 1980. Pynchon: The Voice of  Ambiguity (London: 
University 	of  Illinois Press).

Tanner, Tony , 1976. "Caries and Cabals", in Leverenz and Levine, eds., 
Mindful 	Pleasures: 	Essays on Thomas Pynchon (Boston and 
Toronto: Little, Brown and 	Company).


Tllyan, Khachig , 1983. "Seven on Pynchon: The Novelist as 
Deconstructionist", Novel, Vol. 16, 	No. 2, Winter, pp. 166-71.


Tyson, Lois , 1991.""Existential Subjectivity on Trial": The Crying of 
Lot 49 and the 	Politics of Despair", Pynchon Notes, Nos. 28-29, 
Spring-Fall, pp. 5-25.


Watson,  R. N., 1983. "Who Bids for  Tristero? The Conversion of 
Pynchon's Oedipa 	Maas", Southern  Humanities Review, Vol. xvii, 
No. 1, Winter, pp. 59-75.