Pynchon dissertations

[jbor at bigpond.com]

Another 16 real and recent discussions of Pynchon's work:

Mountains, discourses, lines, and deserts: Close reading ethical land 
practices in twentieth-century America
  by Merola, Nicole M., Ph.D., University of Washington, 2003.

The dialectics of sensibility: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Thomas Pynchon, 
Bessie Head, and the institutionalization of postmodern literary 
criticism
  by Kim, Sue J., Ph.D., Cornell University, 2003, 385 pages.

The novel of retrospect in American fiction of the 1990s: Pynchon, 
Morrison, Roth
  by Cohen, Samuel, Ph.D., City University of New York, 2003, 219 pages.

The exclusion of the traditional villain from contemporary American 
literature
  by West, Jodie M., M.A., California State University, Dominguez Hills, 
2002, 65 pages.

Author as ethnographer: The merging of genres in Raymond Carver's and 
Thomas Pynchon's texts
  by Snyder, Megan Dawn, Ph.D., University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1999, 
196 pages.

Levity's rainbow: Menippean poetics in Swift, Fielding, and Sterne
  by Cole, Kevin L., Ph.D., Baylor University, 1999, 254 pages.

The bleeding of America: Menstruation as symbolic economy in Pynchon, 
Faulkner and Morrison
  by Medoro, Dana Elizabeth, Ph.D., Queen's University at Kingston 
(Canada), 1999, 239 pages.

Breaking chains and weaving worlds: Strategies of identity formation in 
"Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl", "The Crying of Lot 49", 
"Storyteller", "Tracks", "Love Medicine", "China Men", "The Woman 
Warrior", and "Dessa Rose"
  by Lindquist, Kathryn, Ph.D., The University of Utah, 1998, 308 pages.

The anxiety of obsolescence: The postmodern novel and the electronic 
media
  by Fitzpatrick, Kathleen, Ph.D., New York University, 1998, 278 pages.

The varieties of paranoia in "Gravity's Rainbow"
  by Pooley, Charles, M.A., McGill University (Canada), 1998, 92 pages.

Waveforms constantly changing: Postmodernizing electricity in American 
fiction
  by Ford, Douglas Edward, Ph.D., The Florida State University, 1998, 
273 pages.

Fictional needs, literary options: Alternatives to television in Thomas 
Pynchon's "Vineyard", Don DeLillo's "White Noise", and Richard Powers's 
"Prisoner's Dilemma"
  by Horstman, Joey Earl, Ph.D., Purdue University, 1997, 151 pages.

Finite nations, finite selves: The failure of apocalypse in North 
American fiction
  by Wilkins, Peter Duncan, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 
1997, 241 pages.

"Gravity's Rainbow" and the postmodern epic novel
  by Jacobsen, Craig Brendan, Ph.D., Arizona State University, 1997, 182 
pages.

Postmodernist novel as archive: Discursive practice in the texts of 
Thomas Pynchon and Ricardo Piglia
  by Trouve, Theresa Ann, Ph.D., New York University, 1997, 233 pages.

Postmodern menippeas: The literature of ideas in the age of information
  by Greenspan, Brian Leslie, Ph.D., University of Toronto (Canada), 
1997, 426 page.

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>> On 23/06/2005, at 8:50 PM, jbor wrote:
>>
>>> For all dissertations back to 1997 the first 24 pages (generally 
>>> comprising the title page, acknowledgements, index, and part of the 
>>> introduction) are scanned and instantly downloadable as web pages, 
>>> and it seems that these will also eventually be pdfs (but aren't at 
>>> the moment). For those from before 1997 there is just a citation. It 
>>> appears that when the Database is up and running fully there is 
>>> scope to order the entire dissertation and have it forwarded 
>>> electronically.
>>>
>>> At present it seems as if it's possible to save the 24 page previews 
>>> into an MS Word file. I assume the pdfs will become available 
>>> eventually.
>>>
>>> best
>>>
>>> On 22/06/2005, at 8:35 AM, jborwrote:
>>
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