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A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel

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 Steven Weisenburger takes the reader page by page, often line by line, through the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes, and puns around which Pynchon wove his story.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."

Country	USA
Author	Steven C. Weisenburger
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	2
EISBN	9780820337647
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of Georgia Press
Manufacturer	University of Georgia Press
NumberOfPages	434
PublicationDate	2006-11-01
Publisher	University of Georgia Press
ReleaseDate	2006-11-01
Studio	University of Georgia Press

A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel

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