A Gravity's Rainbow Companion - Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)

Adding some 20 percent to the original content, this is a completely updated edition of the indispensable guide to Thomas Pynchon's ""Gravity's Rainbow"". Steven Weisenburger takes the reader page by page, often line by line, through the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes, and puns around which Pynchon wove his story. Weisenburger fully annotates Pynchon's use of languages ranging from Russian and Hebrew to such subdialects of English as 1940s street talk, drug lingo, and military slang as well as the more obscure terminology of black magic, Rosicrucianism, and Pavlovian psychology. The Companion also reveals the underlying organization of ""Gravity's Rainbow"" - how the book's myriad references form patterns of meaning and structure that have eluded both admirers and critics of the novel. The Companion is keyed to the pages of the principal American editions of ""Gravity's Rainbow"": Viking/Penguin (1973), Bantam (1974), and the special, repaginated Penguin paperback (2000) honoring the novel as one of twenty ""Great Books of the Twentieth Century.

General

Imprint:	University of Georgia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2006
First published:	November 2006
Authors:	Steven Weisenburger
Dimensions:	227 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	416
Edition:	2nd Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8203-2807-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literary & linguistic reference works > Literary reference works Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900
LSN:	0-8203-2807-3
Barcode:	9780820328072

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