How had it ever happened here? a Constructivist Reading of Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Its Role in the Pynchon Canon.
| Основен автор: | Klose, Yvonne. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Frankfurt :
PETER LANG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,
2012.
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| Серия: |
American culture (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ;
Bd. 7. |
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How had it ever happened here? : A Constructivist Reading of Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Its Role in the Pynchon Canon. |
Съдържание:
- Cover; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; Truths about Realities
- An Overview ofConstructivist Theories; Part 1: "This is America, you live in it, you let it happen"; 1 Movie-Gaiety, Metal Extensions, and Misunderstandings- Media in The Crying of Lot 49; 1.1 Failed Communication; 1.1.1 Phone Calls; 1.1.2 Face to Face Communication; 1.1.3 Written Media; 1.2 Huxley's or Orwell's Vision; 2 Semiotic W.A.S.T.E. Land
- Language and Modes of Thought in The Crying of Lot 49; 2.1 The Naming of Names; 2.2 The Naming of Places; 2.3 Acronyms & Abbreviations; 2.4 Puns and Metaphors.
- 2.4.1 "Sorting isn't work?"
- The Demon and the Sensitive as Metaphors2.4.2 "The crying of lot 49"
- A Pun on American Fate; 3 "G-strings of historical figuration"- History in The Crying of Lot 49; 3.1 "How had it ever happened here?"- Tracing the Limits of Society and History; 3.1.1 "Inside, safe, or outside, lost"
- Defining Society by its Limits; 3.1.2 "Vistas of space and time"- Stamp Forgeries and Counter-Histories; 3.1.3 "The penumbra of historical eclipse"- A History of the Tristero; 3.1.4 Anarchist Miracles and Power Relations- The Philosophy of History in The Crying of Lot 49.
- 3.2 "Offhand Things"3.2.1 "The very first military confrontation between Russia and America"
- The American Civil War and The Crying of Lot 49; 3.2.2 Switching the Reels of What is Real- Televised History and WWI; 3.2.3 "Japs in trees, Krauts in Tiger tanks"- Postwar America and WWII; Part 2: The Crying of Lot 49 and the Pynchon Canon; I V.
- "Die Welt ist alles was der Fall ist"; II Gravity's Rainbow -"We do know what's going on, and we let it go on"; III Vineland
- "That whole alternative America, el deado meato"; IV Mason & Dixon
- "Bad history."
- V Against the Day
- "The end of the capitalistic experiment"VI Inherent Vice -"What goes around, may come around"; Conclusion
- "Bound for some better shore"; Bibliography.