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... language ( of that language which alone I understand ) mean the limits of my world . The world and life are one . I am my world . ( The microcosm ) ” ( 115–17 ) . Pynchon presses at the edge of the knowable world with his lan- guage ...
... language ( of that language which alone I understand ) mean the limits of my world . The world and life are one . I am my world . ( The microcosm ) ” ( 115–17 ) . Pynchon presses at the edge of the knowable world with his lan- guage ...
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... language is not revealed until Gravity's Rainbow when he literally tries to situate himself - or more accurately his substitute and his transmitted words - outside the world , outside the correspondence of language with reality . With ...
... language is not revealed until Gravity's Rainbow when he literally tries to situate himself - or more accurately his substitute and his transmitted words - outside the world , outside the correspondence of language with reality . With ...
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... language and the controlled information of a routinized world . The Russian Blobadjian , in the wastes of Kirghiz , perhaps learns that language can be used , synthe- sized , and controlled , in the same way that nature can be exploited ...
... language and the controlled information of a routinized world . The Russian Blobadjian , in the wastes of Kirghiz , perhaps learns that language can be used , synthe- sized , and controlled , in the same way that nature can be exploited ...
Contents
Baedeker Land | 65 |
Death Transfigured | 135 |
In Which Various Things Come Together | 187 |
Copyright | |
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