@article {638062,
	title = {"Specters of Communication: Supernatural Media in Thomas Pynchon{\textquoteright}s Gravity{\textquoteright}s Rainbow"},
	journal = {Modern Fiction Studies},
	volume = {63},
	number = {3},
	year = {2017},
	pages = {524-546},
	abstract = {This paper addresses the relationship between spiritual communion and technological communications in Thomas Pynchon{\textquoteright}s\&nbsp;Gravity{\textquoteright}s Rainbow. I argue that Pynchon deploys spiritualist imagery as an analogue for the complexities of modern communication, which displaces the human subject from its self-designated role as creator and/or controller of information. While many scholarly ventures into Pynchon{\textquoteright}s work tend to downplay the importance of his supernatural imagery, I contend that the supernatural plays an important role in his fiction even at the formal level, from which the novel appears to its readers as a kind of spirit board.},
	author = {Patrick Whitmarsh}
}
