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Pynchon's Mythography: An Approach to Gravity's Rainbow (Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques, Third Series) - Hardcover

Hume, Kathryn

 
9780809313570: Pynchon's Mythography: An Approach to Gravity's Rainbow (Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques, Third Series)
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ISBN 10: 080931357X ISBN 13: 9780809313570
Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987

Inhaltsangabe

The exhausting plenitude of loosely connected detail in Gravity’s Rainbow makes it a favorite of postmodern critics, who claim it describes a modern, random, unknowable universe. Hume expands the possibilities as she discloses a mythic structure that underlies Pynchon’s work and provides easier access to his world.

 

?Myth turns chaos into cosmos,” Hume explains, describing how the profuse detail of Pynchon’s book allows for the creation of a ?world humankind shapes out of chaos by means of ritual and myth. . . a set of interlocking stories. . . [that] fit into a narrative sequence or mythology that conveys, supports, and challenges cultural values.”

 

Pynchon’s ?mythology is not rigidly consistent,” Hume notes, but ?several strands of mythological action. . . serve a stabilizing function in this chaotic book.” Pynchon creates his own ?unheroic” hero to show the way for making sense of the fragmented experience of life in the postmodern world.

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Kathryn Hume is Professor of English at The Pennsylvania State University.

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Verlag
Southern Illinois University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1987
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
080931357X
ISBN 13 
9780809313570
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Anzahl der Seiten
248
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