"Private colonies of the imagination": Power and possibility in Thomas Pynchon's "V.", "The Crying of Lot 49", and "Gravity's Rainbow"
The purpose of my research into Thomas Pynchon's use of ideas from science and philosophy is to show that this group of novels is not, as critics contend, nihilistic, but rather hopeful. In his first novel, V., Pynchon establishes the idea that truth--whether historical, political, scientific o...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1997
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9809312 |