Essays about: "Pynchon"
Found 5 essays containing the word Pynchon.
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1. "Sound and Vision": Thomas Pynchon, Perception, and Transcendence
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : Previous studies of Thomas Pynchon’s works have made progress in defining numerous aspects of what could be construed as the Pynchonian worldview. However, they have mainly identified them in general, visual terms, separated from the level of the direct experience of his characters. READ MORE
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2. Fangoso Lagoons: Hyperreality and Imaginary Stations in The Crying of Lot 49
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/EngelskaAbstract : This essay analyses Thomas Pynchon’s novel The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) in relation to postmodern literary theory, specifically the concepts of hyperreality and imaginary stations. In Simulacra and Simulation (1981), Jean Baudrillard proposes that the Disneyland theme park in California is an imaginary station that conceals the fact that it is the world outside of Disneyland that is hyperreal. READ MORE
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3. The Postmodern self in Thomas Pynchon's the Crying of Lot 49 : Dismantling the unified self by a combination of postmodern philosophy and close reading
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : Abstract This essay is about identity and the self in Thomas Pynchon's critically acclaimed masterpiece The Crying of Lot 49. Through a combination of postmodern philosophy and close reading, it examines instances of postmodernist representations of identity in the novel. READ MORE
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4. THE CRYING OF LOT 49: The ‘Anarchist Miracle’
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : This essay will explore the theme of anarchy in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49. Specifically, I will examine to what extent anarchy can be understood as a unifying principle in The Crying of Lot 49 as it pertains to the passage of the book in which the revolutionary anarchist, Jesus Arrabal, declares an ‘anarchist miracle’ as a moment defined by “another world’s intrusion into this one” (120). READ MORE
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5. The Sacred and Sacrifice within an Economy of Wasteful Expenditure in Thomas Pynchon's V.
University essay from Engelska institutionenAbstract : Thomas Pynchon’s V. is often criticized for its preoccupation with meaninglessness and the inability to make sense of ‘who’ or ‘what’ V. is about. The failure to make sense of V. READ MORE
