UID:
almafu_9960119603202883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 174 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-62046-2
Series Statement:
The American novel
Content:
Thomas Pynchon's novel, The Crying of Lot 49, is widely recognized as a significant contemporary work that frames the desire for meaning and the quest for knowledge within the social and political contexts of the fifties and sixties in America. In the introduction to this collection of original essays, Patrick O'Donnell discusses the background and critical reception of the novel. Further essays by five experts on contemporary literature examine: the novel's 'semiotic regime' or the way in which it organizes signs; the comparison of postmodernist Pynchon and the influential South American writer, Jorge Luis Borges; metaphor in the novel; the novel's narrative strategies; and the novel within the cultural contexts of American Puritanism and the Beat movement. Together, these essays provide an examination of the novel within its literary, historical, and scientific contexts.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Borges and Pynchon : the tenuous symmetries of art / Debra A. Castillo -- Toward the Schizo-text : paranoia as semiotic regime in The crying of lot 49 / John Johnston -- "Hushing sick transmissions" : disrupting story in The crying of lot 49 / Bernard Duyfhuizen -- "A metaphor of God knew how many parts" : the engine that drives The crying of lot 49 / N. Katherine Hayles -- A re-cognition of her errand into the wilderness / Pierre-Yves Petillon.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-38833-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-38163-0
Language:
English
URL:
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511620461
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