Pynchon's Alternative Ethics of Writing in V.: The Problem of Authorship in the "Confessions of Fausto Maijstral"

  Takashi Aso

7

The Crying of Lot 49 and C. S. Peirce's Theory of Self-Organization

  Victoria N. Alexander

23

Anarchist Miracles: Distributed Communities, Nodal Subjects and The Crying of Lot 49

  Phillip Gochenour

40

Prurient Ethics: Representing Multiple Subjectivity in Gravity's Rainbow

  Joel Bettridge

53

Remarks on Following Gravity's Rainbow

  Brit Bunkley

74

The Formation of the Rocket-Nation: Abstract Systems in Gravity's Rainbow

  Yoshihiro Nagano

81

Bending the Parabola, Breaking the Circle: The Idea of a Cusp in Gravity's Rainbow

  Robert L. Robertson

100

The Harmless Yank Hobby: Maps, Games, Missiles and Sundry Paranoias in Time Out of Joint and Gravity's Rainbow

  Umberto Rossi

106

Rationalizing Community: Victims, Institutions and Analogies for America in Mason & Dixon

  Robert R. Hill

124

The Anarchist Miracle and Magic in Mason & Dixon

  Jeffrey Howard

166

Pynchon's Age of Reason: Mason & Dixon and America's Rise of Rational Discourse

  Jason T. McEntee

185

Surprise Birthday Party for Thomas Pynchon

  Michael Corrigan

208

Mindful Pleasure (Review)

  Bruno Arich-Gerz

216

Other Books Received

220

Notes

221

Bibliography (–2005)

224

Contributors

236