Site-Specific: Pynchon|Germany—A Multiplicity of Critical Eigenvalues

        Hanjo Berressem

11

Atonalism, Nietzsche and Gravity's Rainbow: Pynchon's Use of German Music History and Culture

        Thomas Schaub

26

Hard Science and the Paranormal in Gravity's Rainbow: Precognition Machines, Cockroaches, and Not That Helmut Schmidt

        Terry Reilly and Stephen Tomaske

39

Relocation/Dislocation: Rocketman in Berlin

        Douglas Lannark

54

Pynchon and Three Contemporary German Novelists

        Thomas Eckhardt

66

The Life We All Really Live: German References as Metaphors in Gravity's Rainbow

        Alexei Lalo

78

Something to Compare It to Then: Rereading Terror in Coincidences Between Pynchon's Germany and America's 9/11

        Inger H. Dalsgaard

85

The Transcription of Electronic Music in The Crying of Lot 49

        Marcus Erbe

99

Pynchon and Electro-Mysticism

        Friedrich Kittler; trans. Kathrin Günter and Martin Howse

108

Encountering the Other at Home: Representations of Dora in Pynchon and Mirbach

        Bruno Arich-Gerz and Luc Herman

122

The Mittelwerke: Site–Para-Site–Non-Site

        Galena Hashhozheva

137

Gravity's Rainbow as Metaphoric Narrative: Film, Fairy Tale and Fantasy in Pynchon's Germany

        Victoria de Zwaan

154

The Leibniz Connection: Nazi Symbolism, Calculus and Leibnizian Worldmaking in Gravity's Rainbow

        Bernd Klähn

169

Ilse/Lies: Nietzsche and/in Pynchon

        Jim Neighbors

183

A Weird Death: The Schwarzkommando and the Symbolic Challenge in Gravity's Rainbow

        Tiina Käkelä-Puumala

195

History, Utopia and Transcendence in the Space-Time of Against the Day

        Heinz Ickstadt

216

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A Note on Propitiating Leprechauns in The Crying of Lot 49

        Christopher K. Philippo

245

On an Unpublished Introduction to Gravity's Rainbow

        Edward Mendelson

249

Plus Ça Change (Review)

        Inger H. Dalsgaard

251

Aspects of Mason & Dixon (Review)

        Frank Palmeri

255

Metahistoricizing Pynchon: A Case for Dr. Smith(?) (Review)

        Manfred Kopp

257

Pynchon Is Not a Narratologist (Review)

        Luc Herman

261

The Pleasures of the Text in the Information Age (Review)

        Donald F. Larsson

268

Other Books Received

272

Notes

273

Bibliography (–2008)

275

Contributors

 299