The Public Burning Project:
An Online Companion to Robert Coover's The Public Burning (under construction)
Devoted to The Public Burning (1977), one of American postmodernism‘s quintessential texts
and the Cold War counterpart to Thomas Pynchon‘s World War II novel Gravity‘s Rainbow (1973),
this project aims to track down the myriad references to events, groups, persons, places, and themes
in Coover‘s seminal masterpiece and to resolve its explicit or implicit citations of, allusions to
and cut-ups made from other works. On completion, it will include the full annotated text of the novel,
an encyclopedia breaking down its references, and a complete bibliography of texts relating to
The Public Burning.
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