Pynchon bio / critical study?

[Bekah]

Thanks Heikki and Alice - I'm very pleased   :-),    especially with  
the Mattessich referral.

Bekah


On Jun 8, 2010, at 2:24 AM, Heikki Raudaskoski wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> two monographs that cover all novels through MD and should be quite  
> easily
> available are "Lines of Flight: Discursive Time and Countercultural  
> Desire
> in the Work of Thomas Pynchon" by Stefan Mattessich (Durham : Duke
> University Press, 2002) and "Pynchon and the Political" by Samuel  
> Thomas
> (New York: Routledge, 2007).
>
> But now to Helsinki. Will also meet Tiina, who three years ago  
> published
> her admirable Ph.D. thesis "Other Side of This Life : Death, Value,  
> and
> Social Being in Thomas Pynchon's Fiction"
> https://oa.doria.fi/handle/10024/7281
> (summaries in Finnish and English)
> Now, this monograph also covers all novels through MD. Cannot say  
> about
> availability. Helsinki U probably has copies to sell.
>
>
> Tiina will head to Lublin. As will John. As will János. As will  
> Clément.
> As will Tore. As will Michel.
>
>
> Not me. Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.
>
>
> Heikki
>
> On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, alice wellintown wrote:
>
>> I misunderstood. My fault. I'm not sure if a collection of critical
>> essays post-M&D exists outside of Bloom's collections.
>> I assume you have the Oklahoma City University Law Review that took  
>> up
>> P and the law.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Bekah <bekker2 at me.com> wrote:
>>> A friend is looking although I'm interested, too.     I'd like to  
>>> find the
>>> best that's an overview,  not one book only,   and reasonably  
>>> available.
>>>  Also,   it has to be fairly recent- through Mason & Dixon anyway  
>>> - maybe
>>> not AtD is okay.
>>>
>>> Bekah
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 7, 2010, at 4:26 PM, alice wellintown wrote:
>>>
>>>> There are studies that include biographies. There are lots and  
>>>> lots of
>>>> studies. What are you looking for? The best? I don't know what this
>>>> means, but if you gie us a hint I'll give you a list.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>  
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know the best or most recent critical study of  
>>>>> Pynchon?
>>>>> (There
>>>>> is no biography is there?  - I can't imagine that would have  
>>>>> slipped by
>>>>> me.
>>>>> )
>>>>>
>>>>> "_ Thomas Pynchon_  (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) ~ Harold Bloom
>>>>> (Editor)"
>>>>> is pub date 2003  (thanks to updates)  - any others more recent  
>>>>> than the
>>>>> 1990s?
>>>>>
>>>>> Bekah
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>