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Page 65
... Garden and the ruined garden outside . Pynchon identifies West- ern man's territory more in terms of knowledge than scene . In short , the earth itself has become the vehicle of metaphor , important more for its descriptive value than ...
... Garden and the ruined garden outside . Pynchon identifies West- ern man's territory more in terms of knowledge than scene . In short , the earth itself has become the vehicle of metaphor , important more for its descriptive value than ...
Page 68
... garden . If the serpent's knowledge of life and death - a dream of annihilation - leads to a wasteland , then man's creation is illusion — a gaudy dream . Only when the dreams are jux- taposed can we perceive that they are different ...
... garden . If the serpent's knowledge of life and death - a dream of annihilation - leads to a wasteland , then man's creation is illusion — a gaudy dream . Only when the dreams are jux- taposed can we perceive that they are different ...
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... Garden and the Map : Schizophrenia in Twentieth - Century Literature and Culture . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1973 . Vesterman , William . " Pynchon's Poetry . " Twentieth Century Literature 21 , no . 2 ( May 1975 ) , pp ...
... Garden and the Map : Schizophrenia in Twentieth - Century Literature and Culture . Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1973 . Vesterman , William . " Pynchon's Poetry . " Twentieth Century Literature 21 , no . 2 ( May 1975 ) , pp ...
Contents
Baedeker Land | 65 |
Death Transfigured | 135 |
In Which Various Things Come Together | 187 |
Copyright | |
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