Part 1. Materials. Novels and short fiction ; Miscellaneous writing ; Biographical materials ; Pynchon's reception ; Book-length studies ; Essay collections ; Uncollected essays: women, gender, and other topics ; Background studies ; Science and literature ; Literary traditions ; Handbooks, reference guides, and Web sites ; Bibliography
Part. 2. Approaches. Literary heritage influence, and context. Teaching Crying: general education, the 1960s, and Lot 49 / Robert N. Watson ; Pynchon's quest narratives and the tradition of American romance / Deborah L. Madsen ; Pynchon's library / Thomas H. Schaub ; Reading the value system of Gravity's rainbow with Marcuse, Freud, and the Yippies / Molly Hite ; "Feeling totally familied out": teaching Pynchon through families / Mark Rohland
Teaching The crying of lot 49. Reading race: The crying of Lot 49 and early Pynchon / Steven Weisenburger ; Teaching the epochal Oedipa: The crying of lot 49 as political dialogue / Jerry Varsava ; Lot 49: science and the novel of systems / Stacey Olster ; Humor and decentered meaning in Lot 49 / Alison T.J. Preston ; Tragic satire: chasing Nazi symbols in The crying of lot 49 / Inger H. Dalsgaard
Empire, history, and postmodern space. Teaching Pynchon's V. / David Cowart ; To historicize is to colonize: colonialism in V. and Gravity's rainbow / Michael Harris ; Antwerp and the representation of the Holocaust in Gravity's rainbow / Luc Herman ; Mediating the past: narrative, history, and teaching Vineland / Robert L. McLaughlin ; Historiographic metafiction / Metafictional historiography: The Mason & Dixon project / Hanjo Berressem and Norbert Finzsch ; Postmodern territories: teaching Mason & Dixon and the ideologies of space / Amy J. Elias
Reading practices. Pynchon's polyvocality / Gary Thompson ; Hypertextualizing The crying of lot 49 / Todd Rohman ; Teaching Gravity's rainbow: correlation in life and reading / Alan Nadel ; Pynchon, Kant, Lyotard, and the sublime / Zofia Kolbuszewska.
