Since the Against the Day Wiki launched in October 2006, the Pynchon Wiki collection has received over twenty thousand edits, making it one of the largest, dedicated literary reference Wikis. One can now view and add annotations to all seven of Pynchon's novels – only Slow Leaner and his nonfiction remain sans Wiki -, and a loose community of over four hundred contributors have done so. This pa...

How can we deal with trauma in a posthuman world? The 9th of September 2001 will be remembered as the day world changed. turn century Western was signaled by this national trauma, but also change humanist paradigm that very much conditioned way which such experienced and represented. This article explores intrasection works Thomas Pynchon Art Spiegelman they struggle to account for 9/11 through...

The works of William Shakespeare have a universal influence and are considered representatives all times ages. Critics, scholars, academics, students been rereading, reexamining, retelling, restaging his plays century after century. This dissertation proposes to examine Tempest as postmodern text. elements: ant-formality, pastiche, intertextuality, paranoia, irony, playfulness, puns, wordplays,...

El objetivo del Trabajo es analizar, desde una perspectiva genetteana orden temporal, la incidencia que las numerosas anacronías presentes en el discurso de Vineland (1990), Thomas Pynchon, tienen conjunto obra, bien a través movimientos analépticos y prolépticos, mediante inmersiones niveles hipodiegéticos. Para alcanzar dicho se presentará marco teórico más utilizado narratología, propuesto p...

Both psychology and psychiatry are dominated by individualistic accounts of paranoia (and indeed, other forms of distress). As a corrective to these, this paper provides a social account of paranoia grounded in a minimal notion of embodied subjectivity constituted from the interpenetration of feelings, perception and discourse. Paranoia is conceptualised as a mode or tendency within embodied su...

Both psychology and psychiatry are dominated by individualistic accounts of paranoia (and indeed, other forms of distress). As a corrective to these, this paper provides a social account of paranoia grounded in a minimal notion of embodied subjectivity constituted from the interpenetration of feelings, perception and discourse. Paranoia is conceptualised as a mode or tendency within embodied su...

There is a small but increasing body of research to suggest that acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is useful for people experiencing psychosis. As an intervention, ACT does not specifically target symptom reduction but rather emphasizes more flexible responding in the presence of psychotic symptoms to encourage increases in value-driven behavior. A case study is presented, detailing use o...

A novel experimental paradigm for measuring state paranoia by means of signal detection theory was evaluated. A liberal response bias, indicating the tendency to recognize facial expressions as threatening, was expected to reflect paranoia. Against theoretical expectations, heightened paranoia questionnaire scores were associated with a non-liberal bias, which was not affected by negative emoti...