Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: The Complex Text -- Setting Sail Against the Day: The Narrative World of Thomas Pynchon -- Against the Master: Pynchon's Wellsian Art -- Travels in the Fourth Dimension in Against the Day -- "Perchance to Dream": Clock Time and Creative Resistance Against the Day -- "When You Come to a Fork in the Road"-Marcuse, Intellectual Subversion and Negative Thought in Gravity's Rainbow and Against the Day -- Imperfect Circles: Asymmetrical Orbital Motion from the Rim to the Centre in Gravity's Rainbow -- Still Moving Against the Day: Pynchon's Graphic Impulse -- As Far as Pynchon "Loves Cameras" -- A Medium No Longer: How Communication and Information Become Objectives in Thomas Pynchon's Works -- "It's My Job, I Can't Back Out": The "House" and Coercive Property Relations in Thomas Pynchon's Vineland -- The Tao of Thomas Pynchon -- "The Real and Only Fucking is Done on Paper": Penetrative Readings and Pynchon's Sexual Text -- Fluid Destiny: Memory and Signs in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 -- The Underworld and Its Forces: Croatia, the Uskoks and Their Fight for Autonomy in Against the Day -- Kit and Kim: Espionage in Against the Day -- "Particle or Wave?": The "Function" of the Prairie in Against the Day -- From Science to Terrorism: The Transgressing Function of Energy in Pynchon's Against the Day -- "Vectors and [Eigen]Values": The Mathematics of Movement in Against the Day -- Contributors -- Index.