The Benzene Ring of the Niebelung?

[Mark Kohut]

Slade's early book, maybe?

The style of connectedness: Gravity's rainbow and Thomas Pynchon - Google Books Resultby Thomas Moore - 1987 - Literary Criticism - 312 pages
Joseph Slade has already pointed to Pynchon's chief allegorical uses of Wagner's Ring: "In [this] operatic cycle, the gods doom themselves by their own ...



--- On Wed, 11/25/09, David Kipen <kipend at arts.gov> wrote:

> From: David Kipen <kipend at arts.gov>
> Subject: The Benzene Ring of the Niebelung?
> To: "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 9:18 AM
> Can anybody recommend a good essay on
> Wagnerian themes in Pynchon and/or Tolkien?
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