Caesar: P's Career as a Maternal Construct in Vineland

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'"Take Me Anyplace You Want": Pynchon's Literary Career as a Maternal 
Construct in _Vineland_'
by Terry Caesar, _Novel: A Forum on Fiction_ 25.2, 1992, pp. 181-199.

Abstract: Explores the literary career of Pynchon through analysis of 
his novel _Vineland_, and speculates on his feelings about critical 
discourse about him. References to "death of the author"; readings 
center on the authority of maternity in the novel; the two reasons 
_Vineland_ seeks biological grounding; Pynchon's escape from the 
determinations of others in order to make the oppressive dilemmas of a 
literary career disappear.

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