The Grim Phoenix: Reconstructing Thomas Pynchon |
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... reader can observe , Pynchon allows his world to reveal what it has in common with the reader's own world , all the time recalling Wittgenstein's proposition that whatever we can see or describe could be other than it is . To ensure ...
... reader can observe , Pynchon allows his world to reveal what it has in common with the reader's own world , all the time recalling Wittgenstein's proposition that whatever we can see or describe could be other than it is . To ensure ...
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... readers in the search for clues . In V. , for example , Pynchon mocks the reader for becoming involved in the search for V.'s identity : " If we've not already guessed , ' the woman ' is , again , the lady V. of Stencil's mad time ...
... readers in the search for clues . In V. , for example , Pynchon mocks the reader for becoming involved in the search for V.'s identity : " If we've not already guessed , ' the woman ' is , again , the lady V. of Stencil's mad time ...
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... reader in his own self - conscious V - structure - a technique that may drive the humorless reader away , but that guarantees the persistent reader's involvement . V. qualifies as the novelist's personification of Henry Adams's theory ...
... reader in his own self - conscious V - structure - a technique that may drive the humorless reader away , but that guarantees the persistent reader's involvement . V. qualifies as the novelist's personification of Henry Adams's theory ...
Contents
Baedeker Land | 65 |
Death Transfigured | 135 |
In Which Various Things Come Together | 187 |
Copyright | |
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Adams's Baedeker Land become Blicero Callisto chaos characters closed system clues communication complex counterforce created Crying of Lot death transfigured demon discovers dream duality earth energy entropy Enzian existence facts fantasy Fausto film force Göll Gottfried Gravity's Rainbow Henry Adams Herbert Stencil Hereros human identity imagination inanimate information theory Inverarity Inverarity's isolated Karl Baedeker Katje Kekulé's landscape lives Malta Maxwell's demon meta-cartel metaphor Mondaugen movie narrator Nefastis's machine never noise observation Oedipa Maas Oneirine Paola paranoia past perception Pig Bodine plot Pointsman Pökler possible preterite Profane Puritan Pynchon's fiction Pynchon's novels quest Rathenau reader recognize Rocket role San Narciso sense signal zero Slothrop Stencil stories street structure symbol Tchitcherine theme things Thomas Pynchon tion tour tourist transformation Tristero Tyrone Slothrop uncertainty Valletta Vheissu Walter Rathenau Watts Weissmann Wittgenstein's words York zero Zone