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White Guys: Questioning Infinite Jest’s New Sincerity 白人：质疑无限极的新真诚

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2017-03-22 DOI: 10.16995/ORBIT.182

Edward Jackson, Joel Nicholson-Roberts

引用次数: 8

Embodied Vision in Against the Day 《逆日而行》中的具体化视觉

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2017-02-20 DOI: 10.16995/ORBIT.200

A. Fahim

引用次数: 1

Novelty, Pattern, and Force in Richard Powers’s Orfeo 理查德·鲍尔斯《奥费奥》中的新颖性、模式与力量

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2017-01-18 DOI: 10.16995/ORBIT.202

K. Hume

引用次数: 0

“A Shorthand of Stars”: From John to Thomas Pynchon 《群星简记》:从约翰到托马斯品钦

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2016-09-09 DOI: 10.16995/ORBIT.204

Mark J. Sussman, M. Eve

引用次数: 13

A Phenomenology of the Present: Toward a Digital Understanding of Gravity’s Rainbow 现在的现象学:走向对引力彩虹的数字理解

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2016-08-08 DOI: 10.16995/ORBIT.131

David Letzler

引用次数: 17

“On Deleuze and Guattari’s Italian Wedding Fake Book : Pynchon, Improvisation, Social Organisation, and Assemblage” “德勒兹与瓜塔里的意大利婚礼假书:品钦、即兴、社会组织与集合”

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2016-07-18 DOI: 10.16995/ORBIT.192

Jeeshan Gazi

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引用次数: 1

Gothic Traces in the Metaphysical Detective Story: The Female Sleuth in Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 and Gibson’s Pattern Recognition 玄学侦探小说中的哥特痕迹:品钦《拍卖品第49号的哭泣》中的女侦探与吉布森的模式识别

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2016-07-08 DOI: 10.16995/ORBIT.195

S. Sweeney

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引用次数: 0

Meatspace is Cyberspace: The Pynchonian Posthuman in Bleeding Edge 肉空间就是网络空间:《流血边缘》中的平克肖式后人类

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2016-06-23 DOI: 10.16995/ORBIT.187

Jason B. Siegel

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引用次数: 22

Death and Metafiction: On the “Ingenious Architecture” of Point Omega 死亡与元小说——论《欧米伽点》的“精巧建筑”

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2016-05-31 DOI: 10.16995/ORBIT.133

B. Chappell

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引用次数: 1

American Narcissus: Lacanian Reflections on DeLillo’s Americana 美国水仙:拉康对德里罗《美国史》的反思

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2016-05-31 DOI: 10.16995/ORBIT.87

G. Herren

引用次数: 2