Pynchon dissertations

[jbor at bigpond.com]

There appear to be 370 dissertations relating to Pynchon currently on 
the database. The following must be the most recently listed. All are 
readily available via inter-library loan, I'd imagine:

America's Germany: National self and cultural other after World War II
  by Schmundt-Thomas, Georg, Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1992, 338 
pages.

Narrative and postmodernism: Politics and contemporary American fiction
  by Mason, Francis Andrew, Ph.D., University of Southampton (United 
Kingdom), 1992.

Novelistic love: A Postmodern investigation of "love stories" in the 
English and American novel
  by Wang, Jennie, Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1992, 
301 pages.

Postmodernist fiction: Theological language and moral vision in Borges, 
Nabokov, and Pynchon
  by Noble, John Partridge, Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1992, 234 
pages.

The function of culture at the present time: (Un)mapping contemporary 
culture studies
  by Brooks, Neil Edward, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1992, 254 
pages.

best

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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:
>>>
>>