TY - BOOK AU - Mendelson,Edward TI - Pynchon: a collection of critical essays T2 - Twentieth century views SN - 0137447140 AV - PS3566.Y55 Z8 1978 PY - 1978/// CY - Englewood Cliffs, N.J. PB - Prentice-Hall KW - Pynchon, Thomas N1 - BIB; Introduction; Edward Mendelson --; V. and V-2; Tony Tanner --; A matter of gravity; F.S. Schwarzbach --; A reply; Jonathan Rosenbaum --; "Entropy" and other calamities; Joseph W. Slade --; An anarchist miracle : the novels of Thomas Pynchon; Robert Sklar --; Pynchon's tapestries on the Western wall; Rober B. Henkle --; The sacred, the profane, and The crying of lot 49; Edward Mendelson --; Pynchon's Paraclete; James Nohrnberg --; Decoding the Trystero; Frank Kermode --; Gravity's rainbow : three reviews -- Rocket Power; Richard Poirier --; V-2; George Levine --; Review for Scientific American; Philip Morrison --; The satiric plots of Gravity's rainbow; Michael Seidel --; The Brigadier remembers; Paul Fussell ER -