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Scott McCLINTOCK, & John MILLER (eds.), Pynchon’s California

Pynchon’s California focuses on the author’s minor novels, at the very least in terms of length : The Crying of Lot 49 is 183 pages long, Vineland 385 and Inherent Vice 369, as compared to the 760 pages of Gravity’s Rainbow, or to Mason & Dixon’s 773 and Against the Day’s 1085 pages. Critics have also used the adjective “minor”—in the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature, for example— qualitatively and not only quantitatively when dealing with the novels set in California, as well as si..

The "Morphosis" of words in the "Plexity" of the World: Back-formation in Thomas Pynchon's "Mason & Dixon"

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"All things shining": Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line in the Light of Levinas

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Making-of as adaptation? Hearts of Darkness and Lost in La Mancha

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Batteries are running down : Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen

International audienceChildren have been a part of the cinematic landscape since the silent film era, yet children are rarely a part of the theoretical landscape of film analysis. Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema, edited by Debbie C. Olson and Andrew Scahill, seeks to remedy that oversight. Throughout the over one-hundred year history of cinema, the image of the child has been inextricably bound to filmic storytelling and has been equally bound to notions of romantic innocence and purity. This collection reveals, however, that there is a body of work that provides a counter note of darkness to the traditional portraits of sweetness and light. Particularly since the mid-twentieth century, there are a growing number of cinematic works that depict childhood has as a site of knowingness, despair, sexuality, death, and madness. Lost and Othered Children in Contemporary Cinema challenges notions of the innocent child through an exploration of the dark side of childhood in contemporary cinema. The contributors to this multidisciplinary study offer a global perspective that explores the multiple conditions of marginalized childhood as cinematically imagined within political, geographical, sociological, and cultural contexts

Transformer le mystère en énigme : l'herméneutique ludique de Thomas Pynchon

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L’île de Saint Brendan dans Mason & Dixon de Thomas Pynchon et la quête du paradis terrestre au XVIIIe siècle

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Pynchon, Leone and Dynamite

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