Twentieth-century American Literature, 6. köideChelsea House Publishers, 1985 |
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... meaning or not . But whatever it is must be at all costs ascertained , and this idea of a mystery - to - be - resolved is what defines the reader's situation in all three of Pynchon's satires . V. is arranged in such a way that , as a ...
... meaning or not . But whatever it is must be at all costs ascertained , and this idea of a mystery - to - be - resolved is what defines the reader's situation in all three of Pynchon's satires . V. is arranged in such a way that , as a ...
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... meaning , may make Pynchon's esthetics more comprehensible . Our task is to understand the device , not to decipher it . Pynchon's onomastic punning produces a kind of Brechtian " alienation effect , " reminding the reader that what he ...
... meaning , may make Pynchon's esthetics more comprehensible . Our task is to understand the device , not to decipher it . Pynchon's onomastic punning produces a kind of Brechtian " alienation effect , " reminding the reader that what he ...
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... meaning . An illustration may be in order here . Consider what happens to us when we confront and are confronted by that cryptically inferential fragment of a story entitled " The Whip . " If we could remember our first reading of it ...
... meaning . An illustration may be in order here . Consider what happens to us when we confront and are confronted by that cryptically inferential fragment of a story entitled " The Whip . " If we could remember our first reading of it ...
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