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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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Author

Schöpp, Joseph C.; Klose, Yvonne

Publisher

Peter Lang; Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften; Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9783631622964

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Poetry