Reviews
"This is an original and provocative book that makes a significant contribution to studies of Thomas Pynchon, to the literature on Deleuze and Guattari, and--most importantly--to the critical project of reading contemporary literature closely, theoretically, and self-reflexively."--Michael Brub, Pennsylvania State University, “ Lines of Flight is an impressive achievement, reminiscent of the work of Fredric Jameson in its engagement with social and political issues, its sensitivity to questions of the ideology of form, and the authority with which it parses complex problems of textuality and discourse and identifies their cultural significance. Pynchon has not had so sympathetic a reader.â€�-Hayden White, Stanford University, "This is an original and provocative book that makes a significant contribution to studies of Thomas Pynchon, to the literature on Deleuze and Guattari, and-most importantly-to the critical project of reading contemporary literature closely, theoretically, and self-reflexively."-Michael Bérubé, Pennsylvania State University, " Lines of Flight is an impressive achievement, reminiscent of the work of Fredric Jameson in its engagement with social and political issues, its sensitivity to questions of the ideology of form, and the authority with which it parses complex problems of textuality and discourse and identifies their cultural significance. Pynchon has not had so sympathetic a reader."-Hayden White, Stanford University, "This is an original and provocative book that makes a significant contribution to studies of Thomas Pynchon, to the literature on Deleuze and Guattari, and--most importantly--to the critical project of reading contemporary literature closely, theoretically, and self-reflexively."--Michael Bérubé, Pennsylvania State University, " Lines of Flight is an impressive achievement, reminiscent of the work of Fredric Jameson in its engagement with social and political issues, its sensitivity to questions of the ideology of form, and the authority with which it parses complex problems of textuality and discourse and identifies their cultural significance. Pynchon has not had so sympathetic a reader."--Hayden White, Stanford University
Table of Content
Introduction 1. Imperium, Misogyny, and Postmodern Parody in V. 2. Ekphrasis, Escape, and Countercultural Desire in The Crying of Lot 49 3. Turning Around the Origin in Gravity's Rainbow : Parody, Preterition, Paranoia, and Other Polymera 4. A Close Reading of Part I, Episode 19, of Gravity's Rainbow 5. Docile Bodies and the Body without Organs: Gravity's Gravity's Rainbow 6. Totality and the Repetition of Difference: Rereading the 1960s in Vineland 7. A Vigilant Folly: Lines of Flight in Mason & Dixon Conclusion: Toward a Theory of Counterculture Notes Works Cited Index
