Pynchonians

Noun

Pynchonian (plural Pynchonians)

1. An admirer or scholar of the works of the American novelist Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937).
   • Academic feminists have for a decade worried that their “acceptance,” when, how, and to what extent it has occurred, is a form of repressive tolerance, a pretense on the part of departments of English that their enterprise could be smothered and subsumed under an expanded definition of...1992, Michael Bérubé, “‘Surely to Pynchon’s Horror’: Canonicity as Conspiracy Theory”, in Marginal Forces/Cultural Centers: Tolson, Pynchon, and the Politics of the Canon, Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell...

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