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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

By Yvonne , Klose

Book information

Publisher
Peter Lang, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Year
2012
ISBN
3631622961, 978-3-631-62296-4, 978-3-653-01320-7, 3653013208
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-01320-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3260353 bytes)
Series
American culture (Frankfurt am Main Germany) Bd. 7
Edition
1st New edition
Pages
234\235
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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«How had it ever happened here?», Thomas Pynchon’s protagonist Oedipa Maas asks towards the end of his second novel The Crying of Lot 49. This question is taken up in this book to explore Pynchon’s novels in the light of constructivist theory. It begins with a detailed reading of The Crying of Lot 49, which is carried into readings of Pynchon’s other novels (V., Gravity’s Rainbow, Vineland, Mason & Dixon, Against The Day, and Inherent Vice). All are shown to critically deal with the social construction of reality as a central theme, and a development of this theme is traced throughout Pynchon’s novels

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