A New Election, A New Preterition”
Early New England's Calvinism and the Hegemonic Framework of GRAVITY'S Rainbow
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16306145 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James M Rankin (James M. Rankin is a graduate student at Colorado State University pursuing his MA in English Literature. He is currently working on his thesis, which examines the negotiation of place and space within the genre of the postmodern and contemporary encyclopedic novel., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 331-348 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The New England Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-4866 • E-ISSN: 1937-2213 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/tneq_a_00672 |
| OpenAlex | W2805904006 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
This article identifies the Calvinism of New England as an underlying mechanism rather than a metaphor in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. It also links historical and geographical space within the context of the religious and mystical aspects of Pynchon’s Zone
Abolitionism · Archaeology · Calvinism · Context (archaeology · Hegemony · Metaphor · Mysticism · Physics · Political science · Politics · Rainbow · Sociology · Theology · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · History · Law · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Religious studies · Themes in Literature Analysis
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |