The Crying Of Lot 49

A Companion to The Crying of Lot 49

Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2008
ISBN : 0820332089
Pages : 209 pages
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Download or read book A Companion to The Crying of Lot 49 written by J. Kerry Grant and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains more than 500 notes keyed to the "2006 Harper Perennial Modern Classics", the "1986 Harper Perennial Library", and the 1967 Bantam editions. This edition adds quotations and paraphrases drawn from criticism published since 1994. It includes more than fifty annotations that have been added and eighty annotations that have been expanded.

by Thomas Pynchon

Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 1996
ISBN : 0099532611
Pages : 130 pages
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Download or read book The Crying of Lot 49 written by Thomas Pynchon and published by Random House. This book was released on 1996 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, The Crying of Lot 49 opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she haas been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange

A Companion to The Crying of Lot 49

by J. Kerry Grant

Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2011-03-15
ISBN : 9780820332086
Pages : 188 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (332 users)

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Download or read book A Companion to The Crying of Lot 49 written by J. Kerry Grant and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains more than 500 notes keyed to the "2006 Harper Perennial Modern Classics", the "1986 Harper Perennial Library", and the 1967 Bantam editions. This edition adds quotations and paraphrases drawn from criticism published since 1994. It includes more than fifty annotations that have been added and eighty annotations that have been expanded.

Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon

Publisher : Harper
Release Date : 2023-04-04
ISBN : 9780063289529
Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Crying of Lot 49 written by Thomas Pynchon and published by Harper. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The comedy crackles, the puns pop, the satire explodes."--New York Times Thomas Pynchon's highly original, postmodernist classic, a satire of American life about a woman who finds herself enmeshed in a seeming international conspiracy. ?When her ex-lover, wealthy real-estate tycoon Pierce Inverarity, dies and designates her the coexecutor of his estate, California housewife Oedipa Maas is thrust into a paranoid mystery of metaphors, symbols, and the United States Postal Service. Traveling across Southern California, she meets some extremely interesting characters--including a teenage rock band called the Paranoids, a right-wing historian and critic of the postal system, and a former child actor with whom she has an affair--and begins to unravel conspiracies she suddenly sees all around her. Written in 1966, The Crying of Lot 49 demonstrates the piquant wit and power of invention that are the hallmarks of Pynchon's acclaimed works. It is the shortest of his novels, and widely held to be the benchmark of this literary lion's career.

New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49

by Patrick O'Donnell

Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1991
ISBN : 0521381630
Pages : 186 pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (521 users)

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Download or read book New Essays on The Crying of Lot 49 written by Patrick O'Donnell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crying of Lot 49 is widely recognized as a significant contemporary work that frames the desire for meaning and the quest for knowledge within the social and political contexts of the '50s and '60s in America. In the introduction to this collection of original essays on Thomas Pynchon's important novel, Patrick O'Donnell discusses the background and critical reception of the novel. Further essays by five experts on contemporary literature examine the novel's "semiotic regime" or the way in which it organizes signs; the comparison of postmodernist Pynchon and the influential South American writer, Jorge Luis Borges; metaphor in the novel; the novel's narrative strategies; and the novel within the cultural contexts of American Puritanism and the Beat movement. Together, these essays provide an examination of the novel within its literary, historical, and scientific contexts.

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A study guide for Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49"

by Gale, Cengage Learning

Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Release Date : 2015-03-13
ISBN : 1410321037
Pages : 15 pages
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Download or read book A study guide for Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study guide for Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

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Simulacrum within Pynchon’s "The Crying of Lot 49"

by Dominika Oliver

Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2013-04-08
ISBN : 3656402744
Pages : 4 pages
Rating Book: 4.5/5 (656 users)

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Download or read book Simulacrum within Pynchon’s "The Crying of Lot 49" written by Dominika Oliver and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2013-04-08 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literature Review from the year 2012 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: A-, University of Pittsburgh, language: English, abstract: The paper is a basic literature paper on the theme of Simulacrum withing the book The Crying of Lot 49. Simulacrum is the inferior reproduction of another object, such as Muzaq trying to represent classical music. Throughout this book, the main character finds herself in many situations where simulacrum occurs, such as the Beatle's rip-off band within the book.

Postmodernism and Notions of National Difference

by Geoffrey William Lord

Publisher : Rodopi
Release Date : 1996
ISBN : 9789042001169
Pages : 196 pages
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Download or read book Postmodernism and Notions of National Difference written by Geoffrey William Lord and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernism and Notions of National Differenceexamines the critical construction of postmodern fiction raising the question of whether the construction of postmodernism has sufficiently accounted for national difference. Geoffrey Lord argues that current meta-national conceptions of postmodernism need serious reconsideration to take national cultural contexts into account. Through a comparative investigation of the theoretical debate, literary traditions and close textual reading of a number of postmodern texts, Lord makes a persuasive case for his broad claim that national cultural differences are more persistent and powerful than usually allowed by established theories of postmodernity which claim a general collapse of traditional cultural orders and the meta-narratives that justify them.

Thomas Pynchon

by Harold Bloom

Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2009
ISBN : 143811611X
Pages : 161 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (438 users)

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Download or read book Thomas Pynchon written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of Thomas Pynchon.

A Hand to Turn the Time

by Theodore D. Kharpertian

Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 1990
ISBN : 9780838633618
Pages : 188 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (633 users)

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Download or read book A Hand to Turn the Time written by Theodore D. Kharpertian and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the major fiction of Thomas Pynchon in three contexts: Menippean satire, post-modernism, and American writing. The critical genealogy of the term satire is discussed and Pynchon's V., The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow are analyzed.

Approaches to Teaching Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Other Works

by Thomas Schaub

Publisher : Modern Language Association
Release Date : 2008-01-01
ISBN : 9780873528139
Pages : 308 pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (528 users)

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Download or read book Approaches to Teaching Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Other Works written by Thomas Schaub and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As teachers well know, the elements that make Thomas Pynchon exciting to read and study—the historical references, the multilayered prose, and the postmodern integration of high and low cultures and science and literature—often constitute hurdles to undergraduate and graduate readers alike. The essays gathered in this volume turn these classroom challenges into assets, showing instructors how to make the narratives' frustration of reader expectations not only intellectually rewarding but also part of the joy of reading The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, and other Pynchon works, short and long. Like all volumes in the Approaches to Teaching series, the collection opens with a survey of original and supplementary materials. The essays that follow offer an array of classroom techniques: among them, ways to contextualize the novels in their historical settings, from Puritan America through World War II and the volatile 1960s; to use the texts to explore racial and gender politics and legacies of colonialism; and to make Pynchon's elaborate prose style accessible to students. Teachers will also find sample syllabi for courses solely on Pynchon as well as suggestions for incorporating his work into graduate and undergraduate classrooms at a range of institutions.

Approaches to Teaching Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Other Works

by Thomas Schaub

Publisher : Modern Language Assn of Amer
Release Date : 2008
ISBN :
Pages : 220 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (32 users)

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Download or read book Approaches to Teaching Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Other Works written by Thomas Schaub and published by Modern Language Assn of Amer. This book was released on 2008 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As teachers well know, the elements that make Thomas Pynchon exciting to read and study—the historical references, the multilayered prose, and the postmodern integration of high and low cultures and science and literature—often constitute hurdles to undergraduate and graduate readers alike. The essays gathered in this volume turn these classroom challenges into assets, showing instructors how to make the narratives' frustration of reader expectations not only intellectually rewarding but also part of the joy of reading The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, and other Pynchon works, short and long. Like all volumes in the Approaches to Teaching series, the collection opens with a survey of original and supplementary materials. The essays that follow offer an array of classroom techniques: among them, ways to contextualize the novels in their historical settings, from Puritan America through World War II and the volatile 1960s; to use the texts to explore racial and gender politics and legacies of colonialism; and to make Pynchon's elaborate prose style accessible to students. Teachers will also find sample syllabi for courses solely on Pynchon as well as suggestions for incorporating his work into graduate and undergraduate classrooms at a range of institutions.

Signs and Symptoms

by Peter L. Cooper

Publisher : Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1983-01-01
ISBN : 9780520045378
Pages : 248 pages
Rating Book: 4.4/5 (45 users)

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Download or read book Signs and Symptoms written by Peter L. Cooper and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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At a Loss: The Postmodern Quests in Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49" and Jim Jarmusch's "Broken Flowers"

by Lars Dittmer

Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2008-08
ISBN : 3640123336
Pages : 54 pages
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Download or read book At a Loss: The Postmodern Quests in Thomas Pynchon's "The Crying of Lot 49" and Jim Jarmusch's "Broken Flowers" written by Lars Dittmer and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam, course: HS: From Poe to Akunin: Highlights of the international Mystery Story in literature and film, language: English, abstract: This paper is building up on postmodern patterns of fragmentation, loneliness and disorientation. The Quest is a central storytelling technique - in times where traditional ways of living and social constellations fade and the grand narratives have lost their guiding functions, people have to "mind-map" their own routes through a fagmentary world. The paper establishes the quest form in the 1966 book by Pynchon and draws lines of tradition to Jarmusch's 2005 Browken Flowers.

Negative Liberties

by Cyrus R. K. Patell

Publisher : Duke University Press
Release Date : 2001-05-28
ISBN : 0822380676
Pages : 265 pages
Rating Book: 4.2/5 (822 users)

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Download or read book Negative Liberties written by Cyrus R. K. Patell and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the nineteenth century, ideas centered on the individual, on Emersonian self-reliance, and on the right of the individual to the pursuit of happiness have had a tremendous presence in the United States—and even more so after the Reagan era. But has this presence been for the good of all? In Negative Liberties Cyrus R. K. Patell revises important ideas in the debate about individualism and the political theory of liberalism. He does so by adding two new voices to the current discussion—Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon—to examine the different ways in which their writings embody, engage, and critique the official narrative generated by U.S. liberal ideology. Pynchon and Morrison reveal the official narrative of individualism as encompassing a complex structure of contradiction held in abeyance. This narrative imagines that the goals of the individual are not at odds with the goals of the family or society and in fact obscures the existence of an unholy truce between individual liberty and forms of oppression. By bringing these two fiction writers into a discourse dominated by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls, George Kateb, Robert Bellah, and Michael Sandel, Patell unmasks the ways in which contemporary U.S. culture has not fully shed the oppressive patterns of reasoning handed down by the slaveholding culture from which American individualism emerged. With its interdisciplinary approach, Negative Liberties will appeal to students and scholars of American literature, culture, sociology, and politics.

Framing the Margins

by Phillip Brian Harper

Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1994-01-06
ISBN : 0195359593
Pages : 256 pages
Rating Book: 4.9/5 (195 users)

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Download or read book Framing the Margins written by Phillip Brian Harper and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dramatic rereading of postmodernism seeks to broaden current theoretical conceptions of the movement as both a social-philosophical condition and a literary and cultural phenomenon. Phil Harper contends that the fragmentation considered to be characteristic of the postmodern age can in fact be traced to the status of marginalized groups in the United States since long before the contemporary era. This status is reflected in the work of American writers from the thirties through the fifties whom Harper addresses in this study, including Nathanael West, Anaïs Nin, Djuna Barnes, Ralph Ellison, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Treating groups that are disadvantaged or disempowered whether by circumstance of gender, race, or sexual orientation, the writers profiled here occupy the cusp between the modern and the postmodern; between the recognizably modernist aesthetic of alienation and the fragmented, disordered sensibility of postmodernism. Proceeding through close readings of these literary texts in relation to various mass-cultural productions, Harper examines the social placement of the texts in the scope of literary history while analyzing more minutely the interior effects of marginalization implied by the fictional characters enacting these narratives. In particular, he demonstrates how these works represent the experience of social marginality as highly fractured and fracturing, and indicates how such experience is implicated in the phenomenon of postmodernist fragmentation. Harper thus accomplishes the vital task of recentering cultural focus on issues and groups that are decentered by very definition, and thereby specifies the sociopolitical significance of postmodernism in a way that has not yet been done.

Readers and Mythic Signs

by Debra Moddelmog

Publisher : SIU Press
Release Date : 1993
ISBN : 9780809318469
Pages : 200 pages
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Download or read book Readers and Mythic Signs written by Debra Moddelmog and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some literary scholars view myth criticism as passe; an approach to literature that enjoyed a heyday in the 1950s and 1960s before being replaced by approaches that are considered to be more theoretically sophisticated and satisfying, such as feminism, new historicism, and deconstruction. Moddelmog argues that there are many good reasons not to cast out myth criticism from the community of critical approaches. Most obvious among them is that myth has attracted many writers of this century -- from James Joyce to Thomas Pynchon, Virginia Woolf to Flannery OʹConnor, Thomas Mann to Alain Robbe-Grillet, William Faulkner to Alberto Moravia -- and that to ignore myth is to dismiss an essential part of their work. Moddelmog suggests that by reconstruing the relationship between myth and literature, we will find that mythic approaches are frequently not only necessary but also highly stimulating, engaging readers in many varieties of questions, quests, and conclusions. -- Publisher description.