Pynchon dissertations

[jbor at bigpond.com]

Another batch, with a couple of familiar names. That's 63 US/European 
dissertations since 1993: in the real world it seems there's still 
plenty left to talk about re. Pynchon's work.

Brave new world democracy: Manifest destiny in the fiction of Joan 
Didion, Robert Stone, and Thomas Pynchon
  by Thoreen, David, Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 
1994, 394 pages.

Images of women and violence in four contemporary American authors: 
Donald Barthelme, Joan Didion, Thomas Pynchon and Toni Morrison
  by Maxwell, Marilyn, Ph.D., New York University, 1994, 446 pages.

Postmodern communities: Collective, non-human subjectivities in recent 
American literature and contemporary ecology
  by Tarter, James Jon, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 1994, 
343 pages.

The fictions of Thomas Pynchon: Fantasy and the fantastic in the 
postmodern world
  by Liste Noya, Jose, Dr., Universidad de Santiago de Compostela 
(Spain), 1994.

Bodies in resistance: Literary and social fractures in 'postmodern' 
times
  by Garcia-Moreno, Laura, Ph.D., Cornell University, 1993, 417 pages.

Crossing boundaries: Postmodern travel literature
  by Russell, Alison Frances, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 1993, 325 
pages.

Figuring the flesh: The intimate horrors of authority
  by Lawrence, David W., Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1993.

La question-recit et la parole kairotique. Pour une pragmatique 
narrative du roman policier
  by Saletti, Robert, Ph.D., Universite de Montreal (Canada), 1993, 367 
pages.

Radiant veils and dark mirrors: Twentieth-century versions of allegory
  by Baker, J. Robert, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1993, 280 pages.

"Saving brown women": Cultural contests and narratives of identity
  by Saliba, Therese, Ph.D., University of Washington, 1993, 320 pages.

S(t)imulating subjects: The mechanization of the body in postmodern 
discourse
  by Kemeny, Annemarie, Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony 
Brook, 1993, 285 pages.

The concealed dialectic: Existentialism and (inter)subjectivity in the 
postmodern novel
  by De Los Santos, Oscar, Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1993, 228 
pages.

The divided self in the early work of Thomas Pynchon
  by Stolz, Christopher, M.A., Dalhousie University (Canada), 1993, 103 
pages.


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: