Pynchon dissertations

[jbor at bigpond.com]

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, jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> Meanwhile, it seems that a whole bunch of American PhD theses have 
> been made available through various on-line Journal Databases. The 
> ones listed below deal with Pynchon. Most of them seem to have both an 
> abstract and a 24 page preview available. Not sure if these are pdf or 
> html, but I'll investigate further today.
>
> best
>
> Conspiracy paranoia in the postmodern age: The study of Thomas Pynchon 
> and Haruki Murakami
> by Kaneko, Fumihiko, Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2004, 
> 180 pages.
>
> Literary topology: Modern science and contemporary American fiction
> by Blackwell, Brent Michael, Ph.D., Purdue University, 2004, 213 pages.
>
> Meaningful forms: Time and knowledge in contemporary American 
> literature
>  by Huehls, Mitchum A., Ph.D., The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 
> 2004, 291 pages.
>
> Novel orientations: Maps, narrative, and modernity, 1850--2000
>  by Bulson, Eric J., Ph.D., Columbia University, 2004, 249 pages.
>  
> Politics out of time: Feminism, futurity and the end of history
>  by Elliott, Jane Kathryn, Ph.D., Rutgers The State University of New 
> Jersey - New Brunswick, 2004, 213 pages.  
>
> Pynchon and history: Metahistorical rhetoric and postmodern narrative 
> form in the novels of Thomas Pynchon
> by Smith, Shawn, Ph.D., University of Delaware, 2004, 367 pages. 
>
> Telluric monstrosity in the Americas: The encyclopedic taxonomies of 
> Fuentes, Melville, and Pynchon
>  by Barrenechea, Antonio, Ph.D., Yale University, 2004, 172 pages.
>
> The nostalgia for novelty: Revivals of the eighteenth century novel, 
> genuine and spurious
>  by Sadow, Jonathan B., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst, 
> 2004, 247 pages.
>
> The re(a)d menace: Cold War fiction and the politics of reading
>  by Matthews, Kristin L., Ph.D., The University of Wisconsin - 
> Madison, 2004, 343 pages.
>
> The romantic hero in a postmodern world: American culture and moral 
> responsibility in the fictions of Morrison, Naylor and Pynchon
>  by Madison, Eunice Kudla, Ph.D., Purdue University, 2004, 216 pages.
>
> Encyclopedic modernisms: Historical reflection and modern narrative 
> form
>  by Attell, Kevin Daniel, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 
> 2003, 239 pages.
>
> Everybody's America: Thomas Pynchon, race, and the cultures of 
> postmodernism
>  by Witzling, David Peter, Ph.D., University of California, Los 
> Angeles, 2003, 315 pages.
>
> History, monuments, and canonicity after the Vietnam War
>  by O'Hara, John Fitzgerald, Ph.D., University of Miami, 2003, 187 
> pages.
>
> Identity and the fall: Three perspectives on the shifting American 
> literary imagination
>  by Vrajitoru, Liana, Ph.D., State University of New York at 
> Binghamton, 2003, 294 pages.
>
> Jacob Van Maerlant's "Der Naturen Bloeme" as encyclopaedic narrative
>  by Theron, Elizabeth Rabie, M.A., University of South Africa (South 
> Africa), 2003.
>
> Le paradoxe comme revelateur de desenchantement et de nostalgie: 
> Analyse postmoderne du roman "L'insoutenable legerete de l'etre" de 
> Milan Kundera
>  by St-Germain, Caroline, M.A., Universite Laval (Canada), 2003, 131 
> pages.
>
> Luddite postmodernism: The anti-rational impulse in contemporary 
> fiction
>  by Li, Chao Bai, Ph.D., Miami University, 2003, 263 pages.
>
> Names and naming in the novels of Thomas Pynchon: A critical dictionary
>  by Hurley, Patrick John, Ph.D., Saint Louis University, 2003, 351 
> pages.
>
> None dare call it masculinity: The subject of post-Kennedy conspiracy 
> theory
>  by Strombeck, Andrew, Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2003, 
> 227 pages.
>
> Phylum machinica: Narratives of anorganic life in contemporary 
> science, philosophy, and American fiction
>  by Sander, Mark Alan, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 
> 2003.
>
> Specters of America: Hauntings of a common continental literature
>  by Lifshey, Adam Michael, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 
> 2003, 345 pages.
>
> Strategic fictions: Crisis, invention, and discovery in the American 
> narratives of nuclear defense
>  by Davis, Doug, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2003, 338 pages.
>
> "Sundered by a memory": The sixties in historical novels and films of 
> the postwar United States
>  by Tanenbaum, Laura Anne, Ph.D., New York University, 2003, 304 pages.
>
> The American experiment: Innovative identity in postmodern United 
> States literature
>  by Spirn, Karin Susanne, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2003, 227 
> pages.
>
> The magic carpet ride: The evolution of rock 'n' roll in American 
> prose literature
>  by Goldthwaite, Charles Anderson, Jr., Ph.D., University of Virginia, 
> 2003, 275 pages.
>
> The veil of being: Perspectivism and the modern subject of 
> representation
>  by Gunderson, Philip Andrew, Ph.D., University of California, San 
> Diego, 2003, 345 pages.
>
> Towards conspiracy theory: Revolution, terrorism and paranoia from 
> Victorian fiction to the modern novel
>  by Wisnicki, Adrian Stanislaw Feliks, Ph.D., City University of New 
> York, 2003, 435 pages.
>
> Transformations of contents: Race, power, and technology in "Mason & 
> Dixon", "V.", "Gravity's Rainbow", "Mumbo Jumbo", and "Cryptonomicon"
>  by Lewis, Jonathan Peter, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, 
> 2003, 331 pages.
>
> "All necks are on the line": Representing history in nineteenth and 
> twentieth century American literature
>  by Neighbors, James Robert, Ph.D., The University of Wisconsin - 
> Madison, 2002, 207 pages.
>
> Analogies between Nazi culture and American culture in "Gravity's 
> Rainbow", "The Thanatos Syndrome", and "White Noise"
>  by Grabar, Mary, Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2002.
>
> Authority and authenticity in "Gravity's Rainbow" and "Mason & Dixon"
>  by Crowley, Michael James, Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2002.
>
> Fetishism as historical practice in postmodern American fiction
>  by Kocela, Christopher P., Ph.D., McGill University (Canada), 2002, 
> 453 pages.
>
> Playing a terrible game of pretend: Masculine performance and gender 
> humor in the World War II novels of Heller, Vonnegut, Pynchon, and 
> Weaver
>  by Pollard, Tomas Glover, Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2002, 265 
> pages.
>
> Reading consequences: Ethics, belief and the reader in America's 
> postwar avant-garde
>  by Bettridge, Joel Mark, Ph.D., State University of New York at 
> Buffalo, 2002, 215 pages.
>
> The Collection: A work of fiction
>  by Bukowski, William Henry, Jr., Ph.D., Texas Tech University, 2002, 
> 138 pages.
>
> The dialectics of desire and the real: Logic a la mancha
>  by Le Blanc, Amana Marie, M.A., University of Houston-Clear Lake, 
> 2002, 54 pages.
>
> Toward an ecocritique of Baudrillardian postmodernism and 
> posthumanism: Nature, human nature, and simulacra in Thomas Pynchon, 
> Jerzy Kosinski, and William Gibson
>  by Kim, Yeonman, Ph.D., Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 2002, 250 
> pages.
>
> Unruly narratives: The anarchist dimension in the novels of Thomas 
> Pynchon
>  by Benton, Graham Webster, Ph.D., Rutgers The State University of New 
> Jersey - New Brunswick, 2002, 372 pages.
>
> Absurd America in the novels of Vonnegut, Pynchon, and Boyle
>  by Hardin, Miriam, Ph.D., Lehigh University, 2001, 145 pages.
>
> American encyclopedic narratives: Thoreau, Melville, Pynchon
>  by Hepler, Daniel Selle, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside, 
> 2001, 234 pages.
>
> Arranging presences in the twentieth-century encyclopedic narrative
>  by Palmer, Dexter Clarence, Ph.D., Princeton University, 2001, 175 
> pages.
>
> Cold War satire in Russian and American fiction, or how we learned to 
> start worrying and hate the bomb again
>  by Maus, Derek Craig, Ph.D., The University of North Carolina at 
> Chapel Hill, 2001, 392 pages.
>
> Communication breakdown: Reading postmodern literature
>  by Karnicky, Jeffrey Joseph, Ph.D., The Pennsylvania State 
> University, 2001, 233 pages.
>
> Metaphysical detectives and postmodern spaces, or the case of the 
> missing boundaries
>  by Swope, Richard A., Ph.D., West Virginia University, 2001, 241 
> pages.
>
> Nihilism and organicism: An ontology of postmodern American fiction
>  by Hughes, William R., Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2001, 244 pages.
>
> Paranoid nation: Paranoia and narrative in American literature
>  by Ruiz-Velasco, Christopher Lorenz, Ph.D., University of California, 
> Riverside, 2001, 192 pages.
>
> Quantum mechanics and modern fiction
>  by Kinch, Samuel Sean, Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 
> 2001, 287 pages.
>
> Specters of apostasy: The postmodern crossing of United States 
> literature and religious studies in the 1960s
>  by Reifenheiser, Paul Michael, Ph.D., The Florida State University, 
> 2001, 308 pages.
>
>