Pynchon's Religion

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Author:         Wood, James, 
 Title:          The broken estate : essays on literature
and belief. 

 Edition:        1st ed.

 Published:      New York : Random House, c1999.    


> 
> see: Eddins for Pynchon/modernism/gnosticism. Eddins,
> Dwight. The Gnostic Pynchon. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990.
> 
>  Pynchon criticism is rich in studies of the spiritual
> dimension of his work. See for instance Hite, Weisenburger,
> LeClair, and Porush. LeClair and Porush, particularly,
> recognize that Pynchon's engagement with spirituality is
> inflected by postmodern styles of thought.
> 
> Also see:
> 
> Mendelson, Edward. "The Sacred, the Profane, and The Crying
> of Lot 49. Pynchon: a
> Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice
> Hall, 1978. 112-145.
> 
> Modern Fiction Studies, Volume 41, number 1, Spring 1995,
> 141-163.
> Postmodern/Post-Secular: Contemporary Fiction and
> Spirituality by John A. McClure
> 
>  "Those like Slothrop, with the greatest interest in
> discovering the
> truth, were thrown back on dreams, psychic flashes, omens,
> cryptographies, drug-epistemologies, all dancing on a ground
> of terror, contradiction, absurdity"
> 
> TF