Sökning: "The Crying of Lot 49"

Hittade 4 uppsatser innehållade orden The Crying of Lot 49.

1. 1. "Sound and Vision": Thomas Pynchon, Perception, and Transcendence

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Författare :Viktor Ferdinand Kovács; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Perception; transcendence; auditory self; phenomenology; modalities of experience; perceptual mode; imaginative mode; Thomas Pynchon; Gravity s Rainbow; The Crying of Lot 49; Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

3. 2. Fangoso Lagoons: Hyperreality and Imaginary Stations in The Crying of Lot 49

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

   Författare :Shane Glennon; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Postmodernism; hyperreality; imaginary station; Jean Baudrillard; Umberto Eco; Disneyland; Thomas Pynchon; The Crying of Lot 49; Fangoso Lagoons;

   Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

4. 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

   L3-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Författare :Andreas Signell; [2016]
   Nyckelord :Pynchon; self; identity; postmodernism; Wittgenstein;

   Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

5. 4. THE CRYING OF LOT 49: The ‘Anarchist Miracle’

   Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Författare :Matthew Tanz; [2015-10-15]
   Nyckelord :anarchy; The Crying of Lot 49;

   Sammanfattning : 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). LÄS MER