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Ain't the USA  Great! 

Author  Patell, Cyrus R. K.
Title  Negative liberties:  Morrison, Pynchon, and the problem of
liberal ideology  Durham [N.C.]:  Duke University Press,  c2001.
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Author  Wilson, David L.,
Title  Science and literature: bridging the two cultures
David L. Wilson and Zack Bowen.

Origins -- How to do science -- Can there be a science of humans? --
Darwinism, and knowledge and power: historical perspectives and politics
in science and the humanities -- Darwin and The French lieutenant's
woman --
Uncertainty:  1.Uncertainty, bias, determinism, and free will  2.
Language and
uncertainty -- Preparing for Pynchon: thermodynamics, Maxwell's demon,
information, and meaning - Thomas Pynchon's The crying of lot49 --
Perception and reality:  1. Human
perception;  2. Reality and representation -- Revolutions in science --
Cycles and
history/Yeats -- Ethics and morality in science and technology -- Brave
new world
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Title The new romanticism: a collection of critical essays edited by
Eberhard Alsen.
New York :  Garland Pub., 2000.
Contents  Definition of Romanticism, Light and Dark -- The Resurgence
of Romanticism  Since the Fifties -- Contemporary Novelists on Romantics
and Romanticism -- A World Too Much with Us (1975) / Saul Bellow -- Is
It
O.K. to Be a Luddite? (1984) / Thomas Pynchon -- Romancing the Shadow
(1992) / Toni
Morrison -- Criticism on Contemporary Novelists -- The Romantic Style of
Salinger's
"Seymour: An Introduction" (1963) / John O. Lyons -- The New Romance [On
Thomas
Pynchon] (1972) / Arthur Mizener -- Lancelot: Percy's Romance (1983) /
Mark Johnson -- John  Gardner's "The King's Indian" and the Romantic
Tradition (1984) / Gregory Morris -- Bellow and English Romanticism
(1984) / Allan Chavkin
-- Hawthorne and O'Connor: A Literary Kinship (1989) / Ronald Emerick --
The Other
Ghost in Beloved: The Specter of The Scarlet Letter (1991) / Jan Stryz
--
Updike's Scarlet Letter Trilogy: Recasting an American Myth (1992) /
James A.
Schiff --Ellison's Invisible  Man: Emersonianism Revised (1992) / Kun
Jong Lee --
Nabokov and Poe (1995) / Dale E. Peterson -- All the New Vibrations:
Romanticism in
20th-Century America (1969) / Ronald L. Davis -- The Corpse of the
Dragon: Notes on Postromantic Fiction (1975) / Frank McConnell --
Hawthorne and the
Sixties: Careening on the Utmost  Verge (1985) / Samuel Coale --
Realistic and Romantic Tendencies (1996) / Eberhard  Alsen --
Contemporary Novelists on Romantics and
Romanticism -- Criticism on Contemporary Novelists.
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Author  Bell, Michael,
Title  Literature, modernism and myth: belief and responsibility in the
twentieth century

Cambridge [England] ;  New York :  Cambridge University Press,  1997.
Contents  Myth in the age of the world view -- 2. Varieties of modernist
mythopoeia. W. B. Yeats: 'in dreams begin responsibilities'. James
Joyce's Ulysses: Trieste - Zurich - Paris 1914-1922. D. H. Lawrence: 'Am
I out of my mind?' -- 3. Countercases: T. S. Eliot and  Ezra Pound. T.
S. Eliot: Religion versus myth. Odysseus unbound: the Cantos of Ezra
Pound -- 4. The Politics of modernist mythopoeia. Joseph Conrad and the
'Africa' within 5. The break-up of modernist mythopoeia.
Novel, story and the foreign: Thomas Mann, Cervantes, and Primo Levi --
6. Living with myth: Cervantes and the new world. Alejo Carpentier:
recovering the marvellous in The Kingdom of this World. Myth and fiction
in Gabriel
Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude -- 7. Living without myth:
deconstructing the old world. Believing in the allegators: Thomas
Pynchon and urban legend. Ideology
and confidence: flights of fancy in Angela Carter's Nights at the
Circus.