トマス・ピンチョン
His work on Thomas Pynchon includes "Pynchon: A Collection of Critical Essays" (1978) and numerous essays, including "The Sacred, the Profane, and "The Crying of Lot 49" (1975; reprinted in the 1978 collection) and "Gravity's Encyclopedia" (in "Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon". The latter essay introduced the critical category of "encyclopedic narrative," further elaborated in a later essay, "Encyclopedic Narrative from Dante to Pynchon".