Vineland

Online Resources

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[+] Vineland: Offline Criticism

The pages listed below are freely accessible. When a link needs registering (see the New York Times), an article can only be bought (see the Critique web site), or belongs to a specific resource (see PMC and others at the John Hopkins University), the link is not included. Unless otherwise stated, pages are in English.

[+] Berger, James, "Cultural Trauma and the "Timeless Burst": Pynchon's Revision of Nostalgia in Vineland", in: Postmodern Culture 6, 4 (May 1995).
Online at The Modern Word, the finest Pynchon resource on the net.

[+] Boomsma, Graa, "Pragmatische oogkleppen", in: De Groene Amsterdammer, 13 oktober 1999. [Dutch]
"Vineland gaat over kijken, verkeerd kijken en het subtiel becommentariëren van leugenachtige beelden van de geschiedenis".

[+] Burket, Richard E., "The State Law Enforcement Apparatus as America: Authority, Arbitrariness, and the "Force of Law" in Vineland", in: Oklahoma City University Law Review Volume 24, 3 (1999).
"Pynchon insists that we already know that law is nothing without its enforcement and that enforcement is nothing."

[+] Collado-Rodriguez, Francisco, "Trespassing Limits: Pynchon's Irony and the Law of the Excluded Middle", in: Oklahoma City University Law Review Volume 24, 3 (1999).
". . . an attempt both to erode his readers' confidence in the validity of the Artistotelian Law and to replace it by a new and more comprehensive paradigm."

[+] Diebold, John, & Goodwin, Michael, "A Reader's Guide to Vineland", an Online Reader's Guide of Vineland, 1990-2002,
"For all those folks who want to read Vineland, but are uneasy about making their way in, we've put together a starter kit, a Captain Midnight Decoder Ring that will serve you as a resource, a reference, a map, and a handy-dandy Pynchon guru all in one..."

[+] du Prie, Daniel, "Thanatoids and Narrative Sliding in Vineland: a reading of Thomas Pynchon's Vineland", (1998)
"This is a "typical" first-year English essay: a bit self-important, wanky and rather full of it. Needless to say, I'm now rather embarassed by it - it's good for a laugh though." (writes the author)

[+] Nicolas d'Estienne d'Orves, "L’oeil du kaléidoscope", en ligne sur: Parutions.com, Janvier 2001. [French]
"Pynchon ne recule jamais devant l’obscénité, devant l’épaisseur, devant l’innommable."

[+] Geddes, Dan, "Pynchon's Vineland: The War On Drugs and the Coming American Police-State", in: The Satirist, September 2003.

[+] Herbst, Michael, Vineland. Thomas Pynchon, online at Buchkritik.at., s.d., s.l. [German - Austria]

[+] Koning, Christina, "Vineland The Good", in: The Guardian, February 1, 1990.

[+] Moran, Jay P., "How is Pynchon Related to the Law?", in: Oklahoma City University Law Review Volume 24, 3 (1999).
". . . so too perhaps Vineland reveals how and why certain marginalized members of our society give in to the male dominated Establishment."

[+] Not Bored, Bill  [sic], "Raptor, Rapist, Rapture: The Dark Joys of Social Control in Thomas Pynchon's Vineland", in: Notbored, "an anarchist, situationist-inspired, low-budget, irregularly published, photocopied journal".
"The year 1984 was in fact the perfect occasion to ask what Pynchon calls "the perennial question of whether the United States still lingered in a prefascist twilight, . . ."

[+] Story, Brandon, "Thomas Pynchon in TV Land: The Televisual Culture in Vineland", 1999.

[+] Sullivan, Bruce A., "Totalizing Postmodernism: Master-narratives in Pynchon's Vineland", online at The Modern Word

[+] Thoreen, David, "The President's Emergency War Powers and the Erosion of Civil Liberties in Pynchon's Vineland", Oklahoma City University Law Review Volume 24, 3 (1999).
". . . the crucifix pins are a parody of the puritan belief in predestination, for what are they but the outward and visible signs of election?"

[+] Vanderbeke, Dirk, "Vineland in the Novels of John Barth and Thomas Pynchon", in: Informal Empire? Cultural Relations Between Canada, the United States and Europe (1998), Kiel, l&f Verlag, 1998, S. 415-427..
"But Pynchon's novel is far too ambiguous to offer us a simplistic alternative of a better world, even if this world is eventually doomed to fail and to succumb to the evil forces of Reaganite persecution. His Vineland is a complex web of intertextual references and hidden allusions. . ."

[+] vhummel [sic], Television and Literature: David Foster Wallace's Concept of Image-Fiction, Don DeLillo's White Noise and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, s.d., s.l.

[+] Webster, Mark, "Vineland retains Pynchon's sense of the absurd", in: The Tech (1990).
"Could the years be mellowing Pynchon? No matter, his talents remain sharp. . . "

[+] Zand, Nicole, "D'Autres Mondes: A la recherche du temps hippy", au: Monde (1991) . [French]
"Dans ce roman de sa génération, plus romantique que ses autres livres, peut-être plus autobiographique aussi, Thomas Pynchon ne cultive surtout pas de nostalgie pour le Flower People, les communautés ou pour ces combattants utopiques qui promettaient de changer le monde." (réproduit au site d' alapage.com)