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Article: Abbas, Niran, ed. Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins.(Book Review)
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- Studies in the Novel
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- March 22, 2005
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ABBAS, NIRAN, ed. Thomas Pynchon: Reading from the Margins. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003. 256pp. $43.50.
Pynchon's novels continue to demonstrate their myth-like qualities. The many elements in his narratives are there from the beginning, yet different "mythemes" foreground themselves as our critical interests shift. The five novels say very different things to this generation of critics, as opposed to what they said to the critics reprinted in the earlier collections of essays edited by Levine and Leverenz (1976), Mendelson (1978), and Clerc (1983). Obviously, we have new critical approaches that were not available in the 1970s and ...