The Quest for the Mechanical Muse: Thomas Pynchon and Science

[Monte Davis]

Umm... handle with care. Ms. Schetzina brings about as much depth and
subtlety to her generalizations about Science and Technology as the average
physics grad student would bring to generalizations about Literature and
History. Maybe less.
 

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ABSTRACT 


 

SCHETZINA, CATHY ANNE.  The Quest for the Mechanical Muse: Thomas Pynchon 
and Science.  (Under the direction of Nick Halpern). 


 

This thesis explores Thomas Pynchon's philosophy of science as evidenced by
the 
thematic and literary role of science in Gravity's Rainbow and Mason &
Dixon.   His 
treatment of science in these novels amounts to a call for intellectual
revolution on a 
grand scale ...

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