Approaches to Teaching Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Other Works

by Schaub, Thomas H.

• ISBN13: 9780873528139
• ISBN10: 0873528131
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Modern Language Assn of Amer

Table of Contents

Preface to the Series	p. vii
Preface to the Volume	p. ix
Materials
Novels and Short Fiction	p. 3
Miscellaneous Writing	p. 4
Biographical Materials	p. 4
Pynchon's Reception	p. 5
Book-Length Studies	p. 6
Essay Collections	p. 7
Uncollected Essays: Women, Gender, and Other Topics	p. 8
Background Studies	p. 8
Science and Literature	p. 9
Literary Traditions	p. 9
Handbooks, Reference Guides, and Web Sites	p. 10
Bibliography	p. 10
Approaches
Literary Heritage, Influence, and Context
Teaching Crying: General Education, the 1960s, and Lot 49	p. 13
Pynchon's Quest Narratives and the Tradition of American Romance	p. 25
Pynchon's Library	p. 31
Reading the Value System of Gravity's Rainbow with Marcuse, Freud, and the Yippies	p. 39
"Feeling Totally Familied Out": Teaching Pynchon through Families	p. 46
Teaching The Crying of Lot 49
Reading Race: The Crying of Lot 49 and Early Pynchon	p. 52
Teaching the Epochal Oedipa: The Crying of Lot 49 as Political Dialogue	p. 59
Lot 49: Science and the Novel of Systems	p. 66
Humor and Decentered Meaning in Lot 49	p. 76
Tragic Satire: Chasing Nazi Symbols in The Crying of Lot 49	p. 83
Empire, History, and Postmodern Space
Teaching Pynchon's V.	p. 88
To Historicize Is to Colonize: Colonialism in V. and Gravity's Rainbow	p. 99
Antwerp and the Representation of the Holocaust in Gravity's Rainbow	p. 106
Mediating the Past: Narrative, History, and Teaching Vineland	p. 114
Historiographic Metafiction / Metafictional Historiography: The Mason & Dixon Project	p. 121
Postmodern Territories: Teaching Mason & Dixon and the Ideologies of Space	p. 130
Reading Practices
Pynchon's Polyvocality	p. 141
Hypertextualizing The Crying of Lot 49	p. 148
Teaching Gravity's Rainbow: Correlation in Life and Reading	p. 155
Pynchon, Kant, Lyotard, and the Sublime	p. 163
Notes on Contributors	p. 169
Survey Participants	p. 173
Works Cited	p. 175
Index	p. 191
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