A Gravity's Rainbow Companion

Steven provides a page-by-page, often line-by-line, guide to the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes and puns around which Pynchon wove his novel. This is a guide book to one of the most important, and intractable, literary works of our time.

Adding some 20 percent to the original content, this is a completely updated edition of Steven Weisenburger's indispensable guide to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Weisenburger takes the reader page by page, often line by line, through the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes, and puns

Vol I: Literaturwissenschaft Der erste Beitrag in diesem literaturwissenschaftlichen Band handelt von einer Gestaltungstheorie in der Dichtung: dem Konzept des objektiven Korrelats - und einem Analogon in der indischen Kunstästhetik. Ihm folgt der Versuch, sich in den schriftstellerischen und persönlichen Kosmos von Mark Twain einzufühlen. Der nächste Text geht sodann

A study of the major fiction of Thomas Pynchon in three contexts: Menippean satire, post-modernism, and American writing. The critical genealogy of the term satire is discussed and Pynchon's V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow are analyzed.

The study analyzes Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow it in terms of Rilke's Duino Elegies, a text which was a major influence on Pynchon's novel.