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grotesque. 1. Capricious Classical ornament (properly
grottesque) consisting of animals, figures, flowers, foliage, fruits, and sphinxes, all connected together, and distinct from
arabesques which do not have animal or humanoid representations. It is so called after the
Antique decorations rediscovered (1488) during the
Renaissance period in buried ruins of Roman buildings called
grotte. Grotesques as a type of decoration were revived by
Raphael (so sometimes called
Raphaelesques), and were used at the Vatican
Loggie (from
c.1515) and the Villa Madama, Rome (1520–1). Designs for grotesques were made available in publications, and, with
strapwork, were common in
Renaissance and
Mannerist schemes of decoration, especially in Northern Europe.
2. Picturesque irregular landscape, often with
grottoes.
Bibliography
Chastel (1988);
Dacos (1969);
Lewis & and Darley (1986);
Ward-Jackson (1967, 1967a)
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Inheriting chaos: Burroughs, Pynchon, Sterling, Rucker.(William S. Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon)
Magazine article from: Extrapolation; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...two grand-daddies, William S. Burroughs and Thomas Pynchon, both of whom continue...between the Slothrop and Pynchon family trees, and...deconstruction (even William S. Burroughs has his...from Burroughs and Pynchon, to the eighties and...
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Indeterminate Ursula and "seeing how it must have looked," or, "the damned lemming" and subjunctive narrative in Pynchon, Faulkner, O'Brien, and Morrison.(Thomas Pynchon, William Faulkner, Tim O'Brien, Toni Morrison)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Narrative; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Narrative theorists have recently begun to examine systematically unusual varieties of narrative and their effects on the narrative discourses in which they occur. (1) Un Margolin and David Herman have gone farther, writing recently about the need to defamiliarize narrative's standard case in order
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Thomas Pynchon's `Against the Day' weighs in: Jokey, dense, 1,085 pages.
Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA); 11/22/2006; 700+ words
; ...deference to Blake's principle, Pynchon appropriately receives special...Younger readers may wonder why Pynchon occupies his singular spot...beginning. "V.'' won the William Faulkner First Novel Award...George Plimpton describing Pynchon as "a young writer of staggering...
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Thomas Pynchon vs. the world: Against the Day is exhausting, twisted, and paranoid. But that doesn't mean Pynchon can't also be fun.(BOOKS)(Book review)
Magazine article from: New York; 12/4/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...striking moment in Thomas Pynchon's enormous new novel that...One would need to sit Pynchon down and demand to know...glory. Part of the reason Pynchon is a more important writer than his successors William Vollmann and Richard Powers...
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Books: Pynchon and on and on Ian Hamilton struggles dutifully through a long-awaited and much-hyped `Big' novel
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 5/4/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...much cloak-and-dagger pomp. Pynchon himself, of course, said nothing...the slave-owning South. Thomas Pynchon's father, it so happens, was...was the Puritan witch-hunter William Pynchon. An interest in the mapping of...
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PONDERING THE ENIGMA OF PYNCHON
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 5/7/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...SIDEBAR) Pynchon milestones Thomas Pynchon was born May 8, 1937, in Glen...Industries. "V" won 1963's William Faulkner Foundation Award for best...was given that year. In 1975, Pynchon declined the William Dean Howells
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Pynchon Winners Announced
Magazine article from: BusinessWest; 10/13/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...been selected to receive the William Pynchon Medal as well as induction into the Order of William Pynchon. The honor is bestowed annually...MassMutual life insurance agent. The William Pynchon Award was established in 1915...
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THOMAS PYNCHON AT LONG LAST, 'VINELAND'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/27/1989; ; 700+ words
; No doubt, author Thomas Pynchon is respected, admired, critically...published in 1963, it won the William Faulkner Award as the best...have continued to join the Pynchon fold, despite, or perhaps...have enthusiastically compared Pynchon to James Joyce and "Gravity...
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Pynchon's `Mason & Dixon' due in April, publisher says
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/24/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...reported 18 years ago that Pynchon was working on a book about...lower, the 59-year-old Pynchon is one of very few members...excitement. Kurt Vonnegut and William Burroughs are more or less...the sales charts. A group of Pynchon's acolytes has published...
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The sewers, the city, the tower: Pynchon's V., Fausto's confessions, and Yeats's a Vision.
Magazine article from: CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...connections between Thomas Pynchon's V. and the work of W...Yeats as mage, who interests Pynchon. It shows what part is played...but also Yeats as mage, whom Pynchon addresses as he works through...works of Emanuel Swedenborg and William Blake. (3) From an early...
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William Pynchon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
William Pynchon c.1590-1662, American colonist and theologian, b. England. An...Massachusetts. Relenting somewhat but refusing to retract all of his opinions, Pynchon left his property to his son John and other children and returned permanently...
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Pynchon, Thomas
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon edited by George Levine and David...Phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon by William M. Plater, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1978; Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays...
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Thomas Pynchon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Thomas Pynchon The American novelist Thomas...Times Magazine. Although Pynchon's minor work received some...graduating from Cornell, Pynchon turned down a teaching offer...rewarded when V. won the William Faulkner Foundation Award...
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John Pynchon
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
John Pynchon , c.1626-1703, American colonist and merchant, b. England; son of William Pynchon. He emigrated to Massachusetts Bay colony...father returned to England in 1652, young Pynchon acquired a profitable business and an...
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William Gaddis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Moore, A Reader's Guide to William Gaddis's The Recognitions (1982) and William Gaddis (1989); E. B...Epic: The Novels of Barth, Pynchon, Gaddis, and Kesey (1988...Indeterminacy in the Novels of William Gaddis (1994).
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