How to Read Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

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0:00 how to read Gravity’s Rainbow
1:00 great books are inexhaustible
1:40 why read Gravity’s Rainbow?
2:30 Pynchon’s postmodern masterpiece
3:56 reading Pynchon as a community
4:44 the difficulty of Gravity’s Rainbow
7:56 Pynchon’s encyclopaedic novel
8:32 the story of Gravity’s Rainbow
8:50 the V2 vs V1 rockets in WWII
10:00 life during the London Blitz
12:44 gallows humours in times of war
13:25 on fear of death in WWII
15:00 atomic fear and Cold War anxieties
16:33 first epigraph for Gravity’s Rainbow
17:13 who was Werner Von Braun?
19:20 paranoia in novel form
21:27 reader relationship with Pynchon
22:25 characters in Gravity’s Rainbow
23:00 the character of Tyrone Slothrop
24:00 central plot line for Gravity’s Rainbow
25:00 the Pulitzer’s reaction to Pynchon
25:45 experiments in classical conditioning
28:15 reversal of cause and effect
30:00 meaning of Gravity’s Rainbow’s title
30:37 the quest of Tyrone Slothrop
32:00 repression and religious allegory
33:19 the line between life and death
34:27 how we deny our mortality
35:00 Time Magazine’s review of the book
36:30 attaining freedom through play
37:55 why did Pynchon write this book?
38:48 humour in Gravity’s Rainbow
40:00 Pynchon works on the unconscious
40:30 literature as coping mechanism
41:00 the rocket threatening all of us
42:35 the reputation of Gravity’s Rainbow
43:22 James Joyce and Thomas Pynchon
44:10 Thomas Pynchon’s cult following
44:33 Pynchon as ‘reclusive’ writer
45:10 Gravity’s Rainbow first published
46:00 why is Gravity’s Rainbow difficult?
46:50 modernism vs postmodernism
48:40 collapsing high and low culture
49:20 pastiche, parody, and irony
50:15 two kinds of Pynchon reader
50:45 metafiction in postmodernism
51:40 strange loops and paradoxes
53:10 companion to Gravity’s Rainbow
53:50 dealing with Pynchon’s allusions
54:10 reading Pynchon with a community
54:52 active reading and marginalia
55:30 confusion is preface to understanding
57:00 proposed pacing for Gravity’s Rainbow
58:15 some words of encouragement
1:00:00 your relationship with this book?

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