It is my purpose to examine Thomas Pynchon's short story "Entropy" for the ways in which it deals with the kinds of disorder(s) involved in entropy as a thermodynamic and informational concept, and to suggest an application of those concepts to critical activity such that disorder need not be seen as a ...
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(21) It is the monism behind this linguistic theory and the Puritan doctrine of Election that comforts, although it also produces the despair of entropy. Mimetic lan-Thomas Pynchon
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CELESTINESCA 'CELESTINA' TIMES TWO AND "ENTROPY" Carole A. Holdsworth Loyola University of Chicago In an interesting study published in 1979, Peter L. Hays and Robert Redfield analyzed the influence of the "Hidden source" Celestina (1499?), by Fernando de Rojas, on Thomas Pynchon's fourth short ...
Learning from Thomas Pynchon The point of departure for this paper is the commonly received wisdom that literary language and scientific language is ... Pynchon scrambles literary codes, mixing styles, genres and discourses in a highly implosive text that disseminates portrayals of chaos, entropy ...
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see the musicians in Thomas Pynchon’s “Entropy” working out this theory for themselves. Duke, for instance, decides to write a song with “no piano, man.
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