Thomas Pynchon's Narratives: Subjectivity and Problems of KnowingIn his first three novels, Thomas Pynchon focuses in part on the inability to achieve reliable knowledge of the self and the world. As a consequence of this and of the events around which Pynchon builds these early novels, V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow tend to be read as nihilistic. This book focuses on Pynchon's use of ideas of western history, philosophy, and science to arrive at a reading that suggests that Pynchon's project in these early novels is to provoke his readers into taking precisely the sort of personal and political action his characters cannot. |
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Introduction | 1 |
The Conditions of Doubt | 7 |
The Paranoid Response | 39 |
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Thomas Pynchon's Narratives: Subjectivity and Problems of Knowing Alan W. Brownlie Vista de fragmentos - 2000 |
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| Título | Thomas Pynchon's Narratives: Subjectivity and Problems of Knowing Volumen 24 de Modern American literature, ISSN 1078-0521 |
| Autor | Alan W. Brownlie |
| Editor | Peter Lang, 2000 |
| Procedencia del original | la Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 12 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0820445061, 9780820445069 |
| N.º de páginas | 143 páginas |
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