A Thomas Pynchon Bibliography

Some Dissertations

Adair, W. G. "Epic Fiction and Imperial Content in Postwar America: With Reference to Selected Texts by James Michener, Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon and Samuel R. Delany." Diss. 1990. King's College, University of London.

Adams, David. "'The divine art of forgetting': Aesthetic Distance in Benjamin, Blumenberg, and Pynchon." DAI 52 (1991): 534A. CUNY.

Alexander, Victoria N. "Narrative Telos: The Ordering Tendencies of Chance." DAI 63 (2002): 951A. CUNY.

Allemano, Marina. "From the Historical Portrait in Waverley to the Historical Vision in Le Roi des Aulnes and Gravity's Rainbow: A Theoretical Study." DAI 49 (1988): 1136A. University of Alberta.

Arich-Gerz, Bruno. Lesen-Beobachten: Modell einer Wirkungsästhetik mit Thomas Pynchons Gravity's Rainbow. Konstanz: UVK, 2001.

Ashe, Frederick. "'Only Poet-warriors': Rewriting the Sixties." DAI 53 (1992): 1910A. Vanderbilt.

Attell, Kevin Daniel. "Encyclopedic Modernisms: Historical Reflection and Modern Narrative Form." DAI 65 (2004): 508A. Berkeley.

Atwill, William Dorsey. "Fire and Power: Narratives of the Space Age." DAI 51 (1991): 3409A. Duke.

Bacchilega, Christina. "Palimpsest Readings: The Marchen and Contemporary Fiction." DAI 44 (1983): 1450A. SUNY Binghamton.

Bachem, W. "Identity and Difference: A Study of Systemic Structures in Selected Works by Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett and Thomas Pynchon." Diss. 1981. East Anglia.

Bailey, Peter Joseph. "Pattern and Perception in the Fiction of Stanley Elkin." DAI 41 (1980): 1585A. USC.

Baker, J. Robert. "Radiant Veils and Dark Mirrors: Twentieth-century Versions of Allegory." DAI 54 (1993): 1799A. Notre Dame.

Baker, Jeffrey S. "Somewhere Under Pynchon's Rainbow: Pragmatism, Protest, and Radical Democracy in Gravity's Rainbow." DAI 56 (1996): 2677A. Purdue.

Baldwin, Charles Alexander. "Vanishing Aesthetics: Mediality and Literature After Merleau-Ponty, Virilio, and McLuhan." DAI 60 (1999): 1554A. NYU.

Banning, Charles Leslie. "The Time of Our Time: William Gaddis, John Hawkes and Thomas Pynchon." DAI 38 (1978): 5471-72A. SUNY Buffalo.

Baringer, Sandra Kay. "The Metanarrative of Suspicion: Surveillance and Control in Late Twentieth-Century America." DAI 60 (2000): 3411A. UC Riverside.

Barrenechea, Antonio. "Telluric Monstrosity in the Americas: The Encyclopedic Taxonomies of Fuentes, Melville, and Pynchon." DAI 65 (2005): 4185A. Yale.

Basci, Kubra Pelin. "Clowning in American Culture and Literature: The Nineteen Sixties." DAI 56 (1996): 4013A. Texas.

Battesti, Anne. "Gravity's rainbow de Thomas Pynchon: L'écriture de la Bifurcation." Diss. 1994. U d'Orléans.

Bayerl, Elizabeth Ann. "Tangled Hierarchies: Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid and Gravity's Rainbow." DAI 46 (1986): 3712A. Syracuse.

Benton, Graham Webster. "Unruly Narratives: The Anarchist Dimension in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon." DAI 63 (2003): 3551A. Rutgers.

Berger, James Andrew. "After the End: Representations of Post-Apocalypse." DAI 55 (1995): 3186A. Virginia.

Berman, Jaye Ellyn. "Parody as Cultural Criticism in the Postmodern American Novel: Donald Barthelme, Gilbert Sorrentino, and Thomas Pynchon." DAI 49 (1989): 2217A. University ofWisconsin-Milwaukee.

Berrada, Fakhereddine. "The Other Pynchon: Narrative Strategies and Thomas Pynchon's Post-Colonial Imagination." Diss. 1995. U of Wales

Berressem, Hanjo. "The Language of the Self and the Language of Society in the Works of Thomas Pynchon." Diss. 1989. Aachen.

Bérubé, Michael Francis. "Marginal Forces/Cultural Centers: Melvin Tolson, Thomas Pynchon, and the Rhetoric of Critical Response." DAI 51 (1990): 848A. Virginia.

Best, Philip. "Apocalypticism in the Fiction of William S. Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, and Thomas Pynchon." Diss. 1998. Durham.

Bettridge, Joel Mark. "Reading Consequences: Ethics, Belief and the Reader in America's Postwar Avant-Garde." DAI 63 (2003): 2870A. SUNY Buffalo.

Bischoff, Joan. "With Manic Laughter: The Secular Apocalypse in American Novels of the 1960's." DAI 36 (1975): 2818A. Lehigh.

Bisset, David Lee. "Contrary Identities: Subject and Text in Modern Introspective Fiction." DAI 41 (1980): 2102A. Virginia.

Black, Joel Dana. "The Second Fall: The Laws of Digression and Gravitation in Romantic Narrative and Their Impact on Contemporary Encyclopedic Literature." DAI 39 (1979): 7331-32A. Stanford.

Blackwell, Brent Michael. "Literary Topology: Modern Science and Contemporary American Fiction." DAI 65 (2005): 3804A. Purdue.

Blaine, Diana York. "'Are they simply going to leave her there?': Dead Women in the Modern American Novel." DAI 56 (1996): 3954A. UCLA.

Boccia, Michael Anthony. "Form, Content and Rhetoric in the Modern Novel: Or What the Hell is Going on Here Anyway?" DAI 41 (1981): 3101-02A. Nebraska-Lincoln.

Bonca, Cornel. "Strategies of Self in the Postmodern Era." DAI 52 (1991): 2141A. UCLA.

Bond, Christopher James. "I. Sir James Frazer's 'Homeopathy' and 'Contagion' as Archetypal and Structural Principles in William Faulkner's Go Down, Moses. II. The Auditory Dimension in Arnold's Search for a Distinctive Poetic Voice: Prosodic Commentaries in Selected Poems of Matthew Arnold. III. Images of Women in Recent Speculative Fiction." DAI 35 (1974): 3725A. Rutgers.

Braha, Elliot. "Menippean Form in Gravity's Rainbow and in Other Contemporary American Texts." DAI 40 (1979): 255-56A. Columbia.

Brande, David J. "Technologies of Postmodernity: Ideology and Desire in Literature and Science." DAI 56 (1996): 2677A. University ofWashington.

Brett, Laurel Kaye. "Toto, I Have a Feeling We're Not in Kansas Anymore: Discussions of Pynchon's Novels." DAI 49 (1989): 3024A. SUNY Stony Brook.

Brooks, Neil Edward. "The Function of Culture at the Present Time: (Un)mapping Contemporary Culture Studies." DAI 53 (1992): 1905A. Notre Dame.

Brottman, David Michael. "The Value(s) of Extravagance-Toward a Phenomenology of the Comic Imagination by Way of the American Comic Novel, 1960-1980." DAI 52 (1991): 914A. Iowa.

Brown, Donald Matthew. "Supreme Fictions: A Study of the Novels of Marcel Proust, James Joyce and Thomas Pynchon." DAI 55 (1995): 3835A. Princeton.

Brownlie, Alan William. "'Private Colonies of the Imagination': Power and Possibility in Thomas Pynchon's V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow." DAI 58 (1998): 3521A. Massachusetts.

Bull, Jeoffrey Steven. "Trying Nothing: Appraisals on Nihilism in American Fiction of the 1970s." DAI 59 (1998): 2020A. Toronto.

Bulson, Eric J. "Novel Orientations: Maps, Narrative, and Modernity, 1850-2000." DAI 65 (2004): 1362A. Columbia.

Bumas, Ethan. "The Utopian States of America: On History, the Novel, and Utopia in the Americas." DAI 60 (1999): 413A. Washington U.

Burda, Helen E. "Redemption in the Novels of John Barth, John Hawkes, and Thomas Pynchon: 'By indirections find directions out' (Hamlet II.i.66)." DAI 48 (1988): 3109-10A. Indiana University ofPennsylvania.

Caesar, Terry Paul. "'Violating the Shrine': Parody Inside and Outside Literature." DAI 40 (1979): 3311-12A. University ofWashington.

Calhoun, John Caldwell. "A Groatsworth of Wit: Parallels in John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor and Thomas Pynchon's V." DAI 37 (1976): 2857A. Arkansas.

Campbell, Elizabeth Anne. "Disposable Containers: Metonymy in the Novel." DAI 44 (1984): 3386A. Virginia.

Campbell, Gregor Duncan. "Historical Consciousness in the Fiction of William Gaddis, Thomas Pynchon, and Robert Coover: A Reading of The Recognitions, Gravity's Rainbow, and The Public Burning." DAI 50 (1989): 1661A. Toronto.

Carter, Dale A. H. "The Final Frontier: American Culture, Society and the Space Programme." Diss. 1987. King's College, University ofLondon.

Chang, Kuo-ching. "Self-empowering Revisions: History, Politics, and Literary Practice. DAI 53 (1993): 3519A. Rochester.

Chapman, Gerald Wester, Jr. "Anxious Appropriations: Feminism and Male Identity in the Writings of Blake, Joyce, and Pynchon." DAI 53 (1993): 2822A. Cornell.

Charney, Mark Jay. "Reinventing Narrative: The Relationship of the Post-Contemporary Novel to the Cinema." DAI 49 (1988): 1136A. Tulane.

Che, Gumhee. "The Cordelia Complex in Paranarrative: The Basic Instinct of Postmodern Textuality." DAI 59 (1998): 1569A. Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Chorier, Bénédicte. "Le Badass et Autres Excentriques: De la Subversion chez Thomas Pynchon." Diss. 1987. Montpellier.

Clark, Beverly Lyon. "The Mirror Worlds of Carroll, Nabokov, and Pynchon: Fantasy in the 1860's and 1960's." DAI 40 (1980): 5847A. Brown.

Cohen, Samuel. "The Novel of Retrospect in American Fiction of the 1990s: Pynchon, Morrison, Roth." DAI 63 (2003): 4311A. CUNY.

Cole, Kevin L. "Levity's Rainbow: Menippean Poetics in Swift, Fielding, and Sterne." DAI 60 (1999): 1143A. Baylor.

Comnes, Judith Chambers. "Gravity's Rainbow as Hermeneutic Text." DAI 44 (1984): 2765A. South Florida.

Cooper, Kenneth Dean. "Fables of the Nuclear Age: Fifty Years of World War III." DAI 54 (1993): 176A. Vanderbilt.

Cooper, Madeleine J. "Centres and Boundaries: The Presentation of Self in the Work of William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Charles Olson, and Robert Duncan." Diss. 1977. Nottingham.

Cooper, Peter Lee. "An Ominous Logic: Thomas Pynchon and Contemporary American Fiction." DAI 39 (1979): 5510-11A. UCLA.

Copeland, Martin Wayne. "Art and Actuality: Studies in the Rhetoric of Fact and Fiction in the Novel." DAI 39 (1978): 277A. UCLA.

Cordle, D. "Literature and Science Writing in Contemporary Culture: The Challenge to History in Post-Enlightenment Discourses of Literature, Science and Literary Theory." Diss. 1996. Leicester.

Cornell, M. Doretta. "Myths Against the Void: Mythmaking in Twentieth Century Literature (T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Thomas Pynchon)." DAI 46 (1985): 976-77A. Missouri-Columbia.

Couturier, Maurice. The Death of the Real in The Crying of Lot 49: Direction de travail: Agregation d'Anglais 410. Draguignan: C.N.E.C./Ministere de L'Education Nationale, n.d. [1985].

Covi, Giovanna. "The Slow Process of Decolonializing Language: The Politics of Sexual Differences in Postmodernist Fiction." DAI 56 (1996): 4388A. SUNY Binghamton.

Cowart, David Guyland. "Thomas Pynchon's Art of Allusion." DAI 38 (1977): 782A. Rutgers.

Cramer, Carmen Kay. "The New Democratic Protagonist: American Novels and Women Main Characters." DAI 41 (1980): 1593A. TCU.

Crowell, Douglas Edward. "'When You See Someone's Head Entirely Bandaged, You Know He Is Evil': Reading Miss Lonelyhearts, the Dead Father, Lost in the Funhouse, and Gravity's Rainbow." DAI 42 (1982): 3998A. SUNY Buffalo.

Crowley, Michael James. "Authority and Authenticity in Gravity's Rainbow and Mason & Dixon." DAI 63 (2003): 3945A. Georgia.

Cullen, Robert Joseph. "Words and a Yarn: Language and Narrative Technique in the Works of Thomas Pynchon." DAI 42 (1981): 1634A. UCLA.

Curtin, Maureen Frances. "Skin Tropes in Twentieth-Century Anglo-American Literature: Interfacing Biotechnical, Political, and Visual Discourses of Identity." DAI 60 (2000): 2483A. University of Tulsa.

Daniele, Daniela. "Mapless Cities: Urban Displacement and Failed Encounters in Surrealist and Post-modern Narratives." DAI 53 (1992): 1150A. CUNY.

Davis, Doug. "Strategic Fictions: Crisis, Invention, and Discovery in the American Narratives of Nuclear Defense." DAI 64 (2003): 1249A. Carnegie Mellon.

Davis, Robert Lawrence. "History and Resistance in the Early Novels of Thomas Pynchon." DAI 55 (1994): 1559A. Ohio State.

Davis, Susan Elizabeth Hendricks. "A Counterforce of Readers: The Rhetoric of Thomas Pynchon's Narrative Technique." DAI 40 (1979): 2677A. Michigan.

Daw, Frederick John Laurence. "Us and Them: Technological Hierarchies in Fowles and Pynchon." DAI 44 (1984): 3070A. Western Ontario.

Dawson, G. P. "The Dilemma of Contemporary Existence in the Fiction of Thomas Pynchon." Diss. 1984. Nottingham.

de los Santos, Oscar. "The Concealed Dialectic: Existentialism and (Inter)subjectivity in the Postmodern Novel." DAI 54 (1993): 1802A. Ohio State.

de Zwaan, Victoria Frances. "Postmodern Pirates: Metaphoric Experiments in the Novels of Donald Barthelme, Thomas Pynchon, and Kathy Acker." DAI 59 (1998): 2021A. Toronto.

DeCurtis, Anthony Raymond. "Contemporary American Fiction and the Process of Fictionalization." DAI 41 (1980): 1056-57A. Indiana.

Del Col, Jeffrey Anthony. "Early Clues for the New Direction? The Technocratic Myth in Pynchon and Pirsig." DAI 39 (1979): 4239A. West Virginia.

Derrick, Paul Scott. "Gravity's Rainbow and the Context of Its Time: A Cultural Collage." DAI 55 (1994): C20. University of Valencia.

Dewey, Joseph Owen. "In a Dark Time: The Apocalyptic Temper of American Literature in the Atomic Age." DAI 48 (1987): 126-27A. Purdue.

Dickson, David. "The Utterance of America: Emersonian Newness in Dos Passos' U.S.A. and Pynchon's Vineland." Diss. 1997. Göteborg.

Disney, Abigail Edna. "Shadows of Doubt: The American Historical War Novels of James Fenimore Cooper, Stephen Crane and Thomas Pynchon." DAI 55 (1994): 565A. Columbia.

Dix, Andrew. "Ideology and Utopia in Novels by William Gaddis and Thomas Pynchon." Diss. 1994. Cambridge.

doCarmo, Stephen Norton. "History and Refusal: The Opposition to Consumer Culture in Contemporary American Fiction." DAI 60 (2000): 4426A. Lehigh.

Douglas, Thomas William Parker. "What We Talk About When We Talk About the Media: American Literary Culture and the Public Sphere." DAI 58 (1998): 4652A. UC Santa Barbara.

Doyle, Linda Sheidler. "A Study of Time in Three Novels: Under the Volcano, One Hundred Years of Solitude and Gravity's Rainbow." DAI 39 (1978): 1547A. Notre Dame.

Dugdale, John V. "Allusiveness and Self-Consciousness in the Fiction of Thomas Pynchon." Diss. 1987. Cambridge.

Edelstein, Arthur. "Realism and Beyond: Essays on Twentieth-Century Fiction." DAI 38 (1977): 1377-78A. Stanford.

Einerson, Allen Richard. "Paradigms of Uncertainty: A Postmodern Mythos." DAI 56 (1996): 2667A. University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Elias, Amy Jeanne. "Spatializing History: Representing History in the Postmodernist Novel." DAI 52 (1992): 4327A. Penn State.

Elliott, Jane Kathryn. "Politics Out of Time: Feminism, Futurity and the End of History." DAI 65 (2005): 4196A. Rutgers.

Emery, Michael James. "U.S. Horror: Gothicism in the Work of William Faulkner, Thomas Pynchon, and Stanley Kubrick." DAI 50 (1990): 3227A. SUNY Binghamton.

Evans, Laurie Tina. "Constituting Selves: Character and Fractal Historicism in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon." DAI 56 (1996): 3580A. Virginia.

Fagel, Brian David. "Spirit Lessons: Post-Nuclear American Fiction and the Spirituality of Survival." DAI 61 (2000): 985A. Chicago.

Farrell, John Charles. "Thomas Pynchon and the Postmodern Language." DAI 49 (1989): 3026A. Harvard.

Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. "The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The Postmodern Novel and the Electronic Media." DAI 59 (1998): 1163A. NYU.

FitzPatrick, Martin Edward. "Artificers and Chroniclers: Rhetorics of Representation in Twentieth-Century Fictional Narrative." DAI 61 (2000): 194A. NYU.

Foltz, Anne B. "Architectonics in the Zone: Construction and Implications in Three Contemporary Novels." DAI 60 (2000): 2492A. New Mexico.

Ford, Douglas Edward. "Waveforms Constantly Changing: Postmodernizing Electricity in American Fiction." DAI 59 (1998): 821A. Florida State.

Fowler, James Eric. "The 'Tempest' Legacy: Shakespeare, Browning and Auden." DAI 45 (1984): 1121A. Rice.

Freeman, Christine. "Speaking the Silent Mutiny of the Muted: Narrative Heresy in Fuentes' Terra Nostra and Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow." DAI 45 (1985): 3127A. Kent State.

Freisinger, Randall Roy. "'To Move Wild Laughter in the Throat of Death': An Anatomy of Black Humor." DAI 36 (1975): 6655A. Missouri-Columbia.

Frost, Janice Wilcox. "'Overcoming the tradition': A Social Constructionist Approach to V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow." DAI 48 (1988): 2061-62A. Utah.

Galica, Gregory Stephen. "Patterns of Experience: The Participatory Voice in Criticism and Metafiction." DAI 38 (1978): 4815A. Northern Illinois.

García-Moreno, Laura. "Bodies in Resistance: Literary and Social Fractures in 'Postmodern' Times." DAI 54 (1994): 3426A. Cornell.

Gass, Joanne Margaret Wells. "Penelope's Tapestry: The Weave of History and Fiction in John Barth's Letters and Carlos Fuentes' Terra Nostra." DAI 50 (1990): 2888A. UC Irvine.

Gaylord, Joshua Alden. "Holy Books, Poison Ink: Narrative Mediation in Faulkner and Postmodernism." DAI 61 (2000): 1400A. NYU.

Geyh, Paula Elizabeth. "Mapping the Postmodern: Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary American Fiction." DAI 56 (1995): 930A. University of Pennsylvania.

Gibson, Jennifer Ann. "Artificial Perplexities: The Paradigm of Gothic Fiction and Its Postmodern Survival in the Work of Nabokov, Pynchon, and Beckett." DAI 52 (1991): 1751A. University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Gilsdorf, Jeanette Wortman. "The Multiple Perspective in Modern Experimental Novels: Eight Examples." DAI 36 (1975): 878A. Nebraska.

Gloege, Martin E. "The American Origins of the Postmodern Self." DAI 53 (1992): 1913A. Rutgers.

Golden, Robert Edward. "Violence and Art in Postwar American Literature: A Study of O'Connor, Kosinski, Hawkes, and Pynchon." DAI 33 (1972): 311A. Rochester.

Goldthwaite, Charles Anderson, Jr. "The Magic Carpet Ride: The Evolution of Rock 'n' Roll in American Prose Literature." DAI 64 (2003): 143A. Virginia.

Gonzalez, Ann Brashear. "'La Novela Totalizadora': Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and Fuentes' Terra Nostra." DAI 44 (1984): 3057-58A. South Carolina.

Gorman, Lawrence John. "Gravity's Rainbow: The Promise and Trap of Mythology." DAI 42 (1981): 1630-31A. Northern Illinois.

Grabar, Mary. "Analogies Between Nazi Culture and American Culture in Gravity's Rainbow, The Thanatos Syndrome, and White Noise." DAI 63 (2003): 2871A. Georgia.

Granofsky, Ronald. "The Contemporary Symbolic Novel." DAI 47 (1986): 526A. Queen's U, Kingston, Ontario.

Grant, James Kerr. "The Embroidered Mantle: Order and the Individual in the Fiction of Thomas Pynchon." DAI 37 (1977): 6485A. Virginia.

Greenspan, Brian Leslie. "Postmodern Menippeas: The Literature of Ideas in the Age of Information." DAI 61 (2000): 174A. Toronto.

Guglielmo, Rebecca Weeks. "The Prophetic Mode in Postmodern Fiction: From Pynchon to Rushdie." DAI 52 (1991): 530A. Indiana.

Gutiérrez-Jones, Carl Scott. "Historical Designs: A Pan American Approach to the Contemporary Encyclopedic Novel." DAI 51 (1991): 4138A. Cornell.

Guzlowski, John Zbigniew. "The Assault on Character in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, John Hawkes, and William Gaddis." DAI 41 (1980): 2604-05A. Purdue.

Hall, Larry Joe. "The Development of Myth in Post-World-War-II American Novels." DAI 35 (1976): 6139A. North Texas State.

Hardack, Richard Bryan. "'The Seductive God': Pan and Transcendental Individualism in American Literature." DAI 55 (1995): 2831A. Berkeley.

Hardin, Miriam. "Absurd America in the Novels of Vonnegut, Pynchon, and Boyle." DAI 62 (2002): 4166A. Lehigh.

Hariman, Robert Donald. "The Public Temper of Gravity's Rainbow." DAI 40 (1980): 4798A. Minnesota.

Harris, Charles B. "Contemporary American Novelists of the Absurd." DAI 31 (1971): 4162A. Southern Illinois.

Hartnett, Michael. "Secrecy and the Novel." DAI 58 (1998): 3121A. SUNY Stony Brook.

Havens, Kristi Larkin. "Troubling Gender: Transgression and Postmodern Fiction." DAI 58 (1997): 2203A. Tennessee.

Hawkins, Dee. "Mythology and Bureaucracy in American Novels." DAI 55 (1995): 1955A. University of Louisville.

Heise, Ursula Brigitte Katrina. "Chronoschisms: Temporality and Contingency in Postmodern Narrative." DAI 54 (1993): 1811A. Stanford.

Hepler, Daniel Selle. "American Encyclopedic Narratives: Thoreau, Melville, Pynchon." DAI 62 (2002): 2422A. UC Riverside.

Hermanson, Scott Douglas. "The Simulation of Nature: Contemporary American Fiction in an Environmental Context." DAI 63 (2002): 383A. University of Cincinnati.

Herzberg, Bruce I. "Illusions of Control: A Reading of Gravity's Rainbow." DAI 39 (1979): 6756-57A. Rutgers.

Hill, Robert Ratcliff. "Epistemological Dilemmas in the Works of Norman Mailer and Thomas Pynchon: The Themes and Motifs of Systematization, Paranoia, and Entropy." DAI 42 (1981): 2131-32A. University of Tulsa.

Hindin, Beverly Narod. "Death and the Imaginative Vision of Modern and Post-Modern American Fiction." DAI 42 (1981): 2676A. University of Pennsylvania.

Hite, Molly Patricia. "Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon." DAI 42 (1981): 214-15A. University of Washington.

Hoerchner, Susan Jane. "'I Have to Keep the Two Things Separate': Polarity in Women in the Contemporary American Novel." DAI 34 (1974): 7233A. Emory.

Holton, Robert. "'Jarring Witnesses': Modern Fiction and the Representation of History." DAI 53 (1992): 495A. McGill.

Horstman, Joey Earl. "Fictional Needs, Literary Options: Alternatives to Television in Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, Don DeLillo's White Noise, and Richard Powers's Prisoner's Dilemma." DAI 59 (1998): 171A. Purdue.

Horton, James William. "Commitment and Utopia: A Liberation Theology Approach to John Dos Passos, Flannery O'Connor, and Thomas Pynchon." DAI 56 (1996): 3959A. Western Ontario.

Horvath, Brooke Kenton. "Dropping Out: Spiritual Crisis and Countercultural Attitudes in Four American Novelists of the 1960s." DAI 47 (1986): 2157-58A. Purdue.

House, Richard Arthur. "Hopeful Monsters: Literary Complexity and Contemporary Narratives of Information." DAI 61 (2001): 2730A. UC Davis.

Huehls, Mitchum A. "Meaningful Forms: Time and Knowledge in Contemporary American Literature." DAI 65 (2004): 1370A. University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Hughes, William R. "Nihilism and Organicism: An Ontology of Postmodern American Fiction." DAI 62 (2001): 172A. Michigan.

Hume, Beverly Ann. "The Framing of Evil: Romantic Visions and Revisions in American Fiction." DAI 44 (1984): 3685A. UC Davis.

Hungerford, Amy Elisabeth. "Personification and the Holocaust of Texts." DAI 60 (2000): 4010A. Johns Hopkins.

Hunt, Sandra Ann. "The Black Humor Novel in American Literature." DAI 38 (1977): 3483A. UNC Chapel Hill.

Huwiler, David Dean. "The Spirit of Play in Recent American Literature." DAI 40 (1980): 4596A. UC Davis.

Ingraham, Catherine T. "Complexion and Complexity: Thomas Pynchon's Reading of the American Scene." DAI 45 (1984): 845A. Johns Hopkins.

Irmer, Thomas. "Metafiction, Moving Pictures, Moving Histories. The Historical Novel in Postmodern American Fiction in the Works of E. L. Doctorow, Robert Coover, and Thomas Pynchon." Diss. 1993. University of Leipzig.

Jackson, Robert. "Voices and Visions: Narrative Agency and the Postmodern Novel." Diss. 1999. University of Sydney.

Jacobsen, Craig Brendan. "Gravity's Rainbow and the Postmodern Epic Novel." DAI 58 (1998): 3922A. Arizona State.

James, A. "Pynchon, the Postmodern and the Postwar: A Reading of Gravity's Rainbow." Diss. 1989. Sussex.

Jannone, Claudia Jo. "Sterne, Joyce and Pynchon: World and Words." DAI 41 (1980): 2599-2600A. South Florida.

Jasper, Alison Tracy. "A Cheerful Nihilism: Absurdity and Humor in Contemporary American Fiction." DAI 51 (1990): 160A. Michigan.

Jenkins, Ronald Alfred. "Systems Theory in the Fiction of Thomas Pynchon." DAI 53 (1992): 498A. Toronto.

Jessee, Sharon Adele. "A Monotony of Fine Weather: Imagined Worlds in Contemporary American Fiction." DAI 47 (1986): 1728A. University of Tulsa.

Jourdan, Robert. "Culture biblique, mathesis et structures de la communication dans The Crying of Lot 49 de Thomas Pynchon." Diss. 1997. Paris VIII.

Kaneko, Fumihiko. "Conspiracy Paranoia in the Postmodern Age: The Study of Thomas Pynchon and Haruki Murakami." DAI 65 (2004): 1356A. Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Katz, Bruce Leslie. "This Ruinous Garden: Readable Signs in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow with Remarks on Barth's Giles Goat-Boy." DAI 40 (1980): 4027A. Rutgers.

Keesey, Douglas. "Rereading Thomas Pynchon." DAI 49 (1989): 3027A. Princeton.

Kemeny, Annemarie. "S(t)imulating Subjects: The Mechanization of the Body in Postmodern Discourse." DAI 54 (1993): 1805A. SUNY Stony Brook.

Kharpertian, Theodore D. "'A Hand to Turn the Time': Menippean Satire and the Postmodernist American Fiction of Thomas Pynchon." DAI 46 (1986): 3352A. McGill.

Kim, Yeonman. "Toward an Ecocritique of Baudrillardian Postmodernism and Posthumanism: Nature, Human Nature, and Simulacra in Thomas Pynchon, Jerzy Kosinski, and William Gibson." DAI 63 (2003): 3549A. Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Kinch, Samuel Sean. "Quantum Mechanics and Modern Fiction." DAI 62 (2002): 4159A. Texas.

Klepper, Martin. "Ausbruchsversuche. Funktionswandel (in) der postmodernen Literatur: Pynchon, Auster, DeLillo." Diss. 1994. Freie U Berlin.

Knight, Peter. "Plotting the Sixties: The Culture of Conspiracy in the USA." Diss. 1996. York.

Kohli, Mary Ann. "Cosmic Christ in a Quantum Universe." DAI 56 (1995): 192A. South Carolina.

Krafft, John Monroe. "Historical Imagination in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon." DAI 39 (1978): 1571-72A. SUNY Buffalo.

Kuhar, Lawrence T. "Toward Vineland: The Arc of Thomas Pynchon's Career." DAI 55 (1994): 964A. University of Maryland-College Park.

Kuhne, David Bryce. "A Continent of Words: African Settings in Contemporary American Novels." DAI 58 (1998): 4654A. TCU.

LaPointe, Adriane. "'Is It Okay to Be a Luddite?': Mechanism in the Fiction of Dickens and Pynchon." Diss. 1986. Chicago.

Larsson, Donald Foss. "The Film Breaks: Thomas Pynchon and the Cinema." DAI 41 (1981): 4394A. University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Lawhon, Richard Benjamin. "The American Antiwar Novel: 1919-1979." DAI 53 (1993): 2814A. South Carolina.

Lawrence, David W. "Figuring the Flesh: The Intimate Horrors of Authority." DAI 54 (1994): 4442A. University of Pennsylvania.

Leland, John Park. "Texts and Culture: The Meta-Fictional Perspective." DAI 37 (1976): 1542A. Purdue.

Lenihan, Jack J. "Dark Design: Studies in Speculatory Narrative." DAI 51 (1990): 1239-40A. Notre Dame.

Lenz, William Ernest III. "Fast Talk and Flush Times: The Rise and Fall of the Confidence Man as a Literary Convention in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction." DAI 41 (1980): 1597A. Virginia.

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