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Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2014-08-29 DOI: 10.7766/ORBIT.V2.2.57

Celia M. Wallhead

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International Pynchon Week 2015: Call for papers 2015国际品钦周:征文

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2014-08-26 DOI: 10.7766/ORBIT.V2.2.124

Ali Chetwynd, G. Maragos

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Review of Luc Herman and Steven Weisenburger, Gravity’s Rainbow, Domination, and Freedom Luc Herman和Steven Weisenburger的《万有引力之虹》、《统治与自由》书评

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2014-08-18 DOI: 10.7766/ORBIT.V2.2.114

A. Rowcroft

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“Sell Out With Me Tonight”: Popular Music, Commercialization and Commodification in Vineland, The Crying of Lot 49, and V. “今晚和我一起卖完”:流行音乐，葡萄园的商业化和商品化，第49拍品的哭泣，和V。

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2014-08-18 DOI: 10.7766/ORBIT.V2.2.55

G. Twigg

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V2 to Bomarc: Reading Gravity’s Rainbow in Context V2 to Bomarc:在语境中解读万有引力的彩虹

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2014-07-11 DOI: 10.7766/ORBIT.V2.2.62

J. Comyn

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Music in Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon 托马斯·品钦的《梅森和狄克逊》中的音乐

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2014-07-04 DOI: 10.7766/ORBIT.V2.2.75

Jo Hess

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A Note on Bleeding Edge’s “Unsheltered” 关于Bleeding Edge的《Unsheltered》的注解

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2014-05-28 DOI: 10.7766/ORBIT.V2.2.81

A. Rolls

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“Something More Than a Rifle”: Firearms in and around Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon 《不仅仅是步枪》:托马斯·品钦的《梅森和迪克森》及其周围的枪支

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2014-03-23 DOI: 10.7766/ORBIT.V2.2.77

Umberto Rossi

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“For every They there ought to be a We”: The (Almost) Equivalence of Power and Resistance in Mason & Dixon and Against the Day. “每一个他们都应该有一个我们”:《梅森与迪克森》和《反对白昼》中权力与抵抗的(几乎)等同。

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2014-03-19 DOI: 10.7766/ORBIT.V2.2.71

G. Maragos

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All Maps Were Useless - Resisting Genre and Recovering Spirituality in Pynchon's Against the Day 所有的地图都是无用的——品钦的《逆日》抵抗类型与恢复灵性

Orbit (Cambridge) Pub Date : 2014-02-23 DOI: 10.7766/ORBIT.V2.2.52

Jared Smith

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