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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 Weisenburger takes the reader page by page, often line by line, through the welter of historical references, scientific data, cultural fragments, anthropological research, jokes, and puns around which Pynchon wove his story.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."

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  • Title A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel
  • Author Steven Weisenburger
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Second Edition,
  • Pages 440
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Georgia Press, USA
  • Publication date 2006-11-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780820328072 / 0820328073
  • Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 5.9 x 1.2 in (22.86 x 14.99 x 3.05 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Pynchon, Thomas
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006011956
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.54

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2007, Page 304

About the author

STEVEN 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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