3 Turning Around the Origin in Gravity’s Rainbow: Parody, Preterition, Paranoia, and Other Polymera

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 Imperium, Misogyny, and Postmodern Parody in V. 23
5. 2 Ekphrasis, Escape, and Countercultural Desire in The Crying of Lot 49 43
6. 3 Turning Around the Origin in Gravity’s Rainbow: Parody, Preterition, Paranoia, and Other Polymera 70
7. 4 A Close Reading of Part 1, Episode 19, of Gravity’s Rainbow 95
8. 5 Docile Bodies and the Body without Organs: Gravity’s Gravity’s Rainbow 133
9. 6 Totality and the Repetition of Di√erence: Rereading the 1960s in Vineland 207
10. 7 A Vigilant Folly: Lines of Flight in Mason & Dixon 231
11. Conclusion: Toward a Theory of the Counterculture 246
12. Notes 255
13. Works Cited 285
14. Index 289