pynchonian
/pɪnˈt͡ʃəʊ.ni.ən/
Etymology
From Pynchon + -ian.
adj
- Of or relating to Thomas Pynchon (b. 1937), American novelist.
- Densely convoluted, verbose and full of allusion.
noun
- 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 “institutional criticism.” And though the rhetoric of Pynchon studies takes much the same line of argument, I sug”