Similar words: honcho, cinchona, head honcho, synch, lynch, lyncher, lynching, lynchpin. Meaning: n. United States writer of pessimistic novels about life in a technologically advanced society (born in 1937).
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1 Thomas Pynchon has also shown a consistent fondness for slapstick effects in his novels, drawn partly from comic cinema.
2 Pynchon is as explicit as Burroughs about the disruptive effects of his method.
3 Pynchon lets us see both.
4 Following this trace, Pynchon draws the outline of a degenerating word going from order to disorder and the despairing human beings floundering in it.
5 So, I think this is what Pynchon brings to the string of meditations on what language can do, and what the novel is for, that I began my lecture today with, just recapping for you.
6 So, Pynchon is using that religious vocabulary: not just the religious imagery of the Pieta, but the religious vocabulary of the capitalized Word.
7 Together with Pynchon, Barthelme and Hawkes, Gaddis has earned his reputation as one of the precursors and masters of postmodern American fiction.
8 The Postmodernist fiction of Thomas Pynchon carries on the traditional literary motif of quest, but goes beyond the quest for"meaning" and thus extends the scope of the motif.
9 In Pynchon, often, these are somehow social details about people talking to other people, political things, places, and how houses are arranged.
10 He's been so secretive he makes Thomas Pynchon seem like a gadabout.
11 The whole place feels like a Pynchon novel in which a bunch of lunatics are employed by a military contractor with a really fine palate.
12 Consider the performance review Vickie Pynchon had as a young attorney.
13 The writers of novels containing elements of black humor include Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth,[www.Sentencedict.com] Joseph Heller and Philip Roth.
14 And that's what that mattress is: totally imbued with the bodily detritus of a human life, Pynchon She reflects, later, on the set of all men who had slept on that mattress.
15 I want you to think about what kind of protagonist Pynchon sends out into this world.
16 And she reflects, just above that, on the mattress that he must sleep in, and this is one of those great Pynchon sentences.
17 Critics marveled at the prodigious talent evident in his imaginative take on a future world, comparing him to Thomas Pynchon and John Irving.
18 The present author tries to probe into the postmodernist indeterminacy displayed in the postmodernist novel The Crying of Lot 49, by one of the most important postmodernist writers Thomas Pynchon.
19 Do you have a copy of Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon?
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