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1	A postmodernist parodic allegory : Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 / Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 Li, Xu January 2009 (has links) University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of English English Studies -- Department of English Pynchon, Thomas. Crying of lot 49 Quilligan, Maureen, 1944- Women in literature Allegory
2	Literature in the Age of Science: Technology and Scientists in the Mid-Twentieth Century Works of Isaac Asimov, John Barth, Arthur C. Clarke, Thomas Pynchon, and Kurt Vonnegut Simes, Peter A. 08 1900 (has links) This study explores the depictions of technology and scientists in the literature of five writers during the 1960s. Scientists and technology associated with nuclear, computer, and space science are examined, focusing on their respective treatments by the following writers: John Barth, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, Isaac Asimov, and Arthur C. Clarke. Despite the close connections between the abovementioned sciences, space science is largely spared from negative critiques during the sixties. Through an analysis of Barth's Giles Goat-boy, Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, Asimov's short stories "Key Item," "The Last Question," "The Machine That Won the War," "My Son, the Physicist," and Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey, it is argued that altruistic goals of space science during the 1960s protect it from the satirical treatments that surround the other sciences. Asimov science and literature Pynchon Cold War Vonnegut 2001 Barth Scientists in literature. Technology in literature. Science in literature. Barth, John, 1930- Giles goat-boy. Vonnegut, Kurt. Cat's cradle. Pynchon, Thomas. Crying of lot 49.

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A postmodernist parodic allegory : Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 / Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49

Literature in the Age of Science: Technology and Scientists in the Mid-Twentieth Century Works of Isaac Asimov, John Barth, Arthur C. Clarke, Thomas Pynchon, and Kurt Vonnegut