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[John M. Krafft]

                      PYNCHON NOTES 40-41
                           Contents

Real Imaginary Lines in "The Secret Integration"
  Robert Holton -- 5

Visions of Excess: Pynchon and Bataille
  Mark Robberds -- 19

The Pynchon Intertext of LempriŠre's Dictionary
  Amy J. Elias -- 28

Oedipa Crisis: Paranoia and Prohibition in The Crying of Lot 49
  Gregory Flaxman -- 41

Pynchon, JFK and the CIA: Magic Eye Views
of The Crying of Lot 49
  Charles Hollander -- 61

A Possible Source for the Name Oedipa Maas
  Bernd Herzogenrath -- 107

A Child Roaming the Night: Oedipa's Dead Issue
in The Crying of Lot 49
  M. W. Rohland -- 110

Texts of the Text: Citations in Gravity's Rainbow
  Terry Caesar -- 125

Outhouses of the European Soul: Imperialism in Thomas Pynchon
  Douglas Ivison -- 134

The Business of Living: Gravity's Rainbow, Evolution,
and the Advancement of Capitalism
  Deborah L. Madsen -- 144

Franz P”kler's Anti-Story: Narrative and Self
in Gravity's Rainbow
  Robert L. McLaughlin -- 159

Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo?: Musical Moods
in the Casino Hermann Goering
  Sally E. Parry -- 176

Perplexing Utopia: Modern and Postmodern Alienation in Vineland
  Neil Brooks -- 180

Decoding Community in Pynchon's Vineland: Problematic
Definitions for Readers and Characters
  Robert R. Hill -- 197

That's "Post-Bibliocentric" to You (Rev. of Reading Matters)
  Diana York Blaine -- 218

Other Books Received -- 221

Notes -- 222

Bibliography (-1998) -- 225

Contributors -- 238

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                        John M. Krafft
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                  College of Arts & Sciences
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                       Khachig T”l”lyan
                      English Department
                      Wesleyan University
                   Middletown, CT 06459-0100
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                        ISSN 0278-1891

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