space in GR

Umberto Mazzei umberto.mazzei at gmail.com
Thu Apr 18 06:44:37 CDT 2013


Thanks a lot! Those look like a real gold mine, I'll check them. And  
I'll also have a close look at the PN indices, as alice suggested.
thanks again!


Il giorno 18/apr/13, alle ore 13:18, Heikki Raudaskoski ha scritto:

>
> Hi,
>
> off the top of my head:
>
> Kappel, Lawrence. "Psychic Geography in Gravity's Rainbow."
> Contemporary Literature [1980] 21 no. 2: 225-251.
>
> Johnston, John. "Pynchon's 'Zone': A Postmodern Multiplicity."
> Arizona Quarterly [1990] 46 no. 3: 91-122.
>
> Caviola, Hugo. In the Zone: Perception and Presentation of Space
> in German and American Postmodernism. Basel: Birkhäuser 1991.
>
> Bulson, Eric. "Pynchon's Baedeker Trick." In: Novels, Maps,
> Modernity: The Spatial Imagination, 1850-2000. Routledge 2007.
>
>
> And the Pynchon Notes archive is, of course, invaluable.
>
>
> Heikki
>
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2013, Umberto Mazzei wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>> I'm working on a paper about spatial representations in postmodernist
>> literature and part of it will be dedicated to GR and M&D. As regards
>> M&D I've already found enough literature, while I have some problems
>> in finding something specifically on the topic for GR (I'm looking,
>> loosely speaking, for a close analysis to The Zone and the way in
>> which space is depicted in the novel).
>> What I got so far is the chapter "In The Zone" in McHale's
>> "Postmodernist fiction" and Brian Jarvis' chapter on P in his
>> "Postmodern Cartographies". They're both useful, but I'd need
>> something more.
>> Anyone can suggest essays about that?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help!
>> cheers,
>> Umberto
>>




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