Criticism

Ames, Christopher. "Power and the Obscene Word: Discourses of Extremity in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow." Contemporary Literature XXXI, No. 2 (Summer 1990): 191-207.

Discusses the function of obscenity in Gravity's Rainbow as a counteractive force against scientific jargon, the language of authority and oppression in the novel.

Caesar, Terry. "'Take Me Anyplace You Want': Pynchon's Literary Career as a Maternal Construct in Vineland." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 25, No. 2 (Winter 1992): 181-99.

Explores suggestive issues of origin and maternity in Vineland in terms of Pynchon's virtually unknown personal life.

Cowart, David. "Continuity and Growth." The Kenyon Review 12, No. 4 (Fall 1990): 176-90.

Provides extended critical analysis of Vineland.

Gibb, Robert. "Ideas of Order: The Shapes of Art in The Crying of Lot 49." Journal of Modern Literature XVII, No. 1 (Summer 1990): 97-116.

Examines the paradoxical significance of closed systems in the narrative structure of The Crying of Lot 49.

Hans, James S. "Gravity's Rainbow and the Literature of Renewal." Essays in Literature 15, No. 2 (Fall 1988): 267-84.

Explores positive aspects of multiplicity in Gravity's Rainbow, presented as an antidote to oppressive binary logic.

Hume, Kathryn. "Views from Above, Views from Below: The Perspectival Subtext in Gravity's Rainbow." American Literature 60, No. 4 (December 1988): 625-42.

Examines the significance of shifting vertical and horizontal perspectives in Gravity's Rainbow as a component of the novel's multidimensional subtext.

Putz, Manfried. "The Art of the Acronym in Thomas Pynchon." Studies in the Novel 23, No. 3 (Fall 1991): 371-82.

Discusses the function of acronyms in Pynchon's fiction as a source of parody and satire.

Robberds, Mark. "The New Historicist Creepers of Vineland." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction XXXVI, No. 4 (Summer 1995): 237-48.

Examines elements of poststructuralist theory and allegory in the historical underpinnings of Vineland.

Schachterle, Lance. "Bandwidth as Metaphor for Consciousness in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow." Studies in the Literary Imagination 22, No. 1 (Spring 1989): 101-17.

Discusses the metaphorical significance of bandwidth in Gravity's Rainbow in the technical context of communication theory.

Weisenburger, Steven. "Hysteron Proteron in Gravity's Rainbow." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 34, No. 1 (Spring 1992): 87-105.

Examines the significance of "hysteron proteron" in Gravity's Rainbow as an element of satire and narrative disruption.