A Gravity's Rainbow Companion by Steven Weisenburger

A Gravity's Rainbow Companion by Steven Weisenburger

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 Weisenburger takes the reader page by page, often line by line, through the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes, and puns around which Pynchon wove his story. Weisenburger fully annotates Pynchon's use of languages ranging from Russian and Hebrew to such subdialects of English as 1940s street talk, drug lingo, and military slang as well as the more obscure terminology of black magic, Rosicrucianism, and Pavlovian psychology. The Companion also reveals the underlying organization of Gravity's Rainbow--how the book's myriad references form patterns of meaning and structure that have eluded both admirers and critics of the novel.

The Companion is keyed to the pages of the principal American editions of Gravity's Rainbow Viking/Penguin (1973), Bantam (1974), and the special, repaginated Penguin paperback (2000) honoring the novel as one of twenty Great Books of the Twentieth Century.

Steven C. Weisenburger is Mossiker Chair in Humanities and Chair of the English Department at Southern Methodist University. His books include Fables of Subversion (Georgia) and Modern Medea.

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ISBN 13	9780820328072
ISBN 10	0820328073
Title	A Gravity's Rainbow Companion
Author	Steven Weisenburger
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Georgia Press
Year published	2006-11-30
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