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From Postmodernism to Psychoanalysis: Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49
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Adams, Brittany N.
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Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2011, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of English.
Abstract
Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 is a critique of two dominant schools of literary-cultural theory. Jean-François Lyotard's postmodern theory is challenged by Pynchon's depiction of a continuous but creative mourning. Furthermore, psychoanalytic theory is taken up as a subject in the novel whereby the domain of psychoanalysis is reworked and reconstituted as narrative form. In charting the move from postmodernism to psychoanalysis, I argue that the novel has created a new kind of continuous and circuitous storytelling.
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Tammy Clewell (Advisor)
Kevin Floyd (Committee Member)
Mark Bracher (Committee Member)
Pages
66 p.
Subject Headings
American Literature
Keywords
Pynchon, Thomas
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psychoanalysis
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postmodernism
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Adams, B. N. (2011).
From Postmodernism to Psychoanalysis: Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49
[Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1302656178
APA Style (7th edition)
Adams, Brittany.
From Postmodernism to Psychoanalysis: Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49.
2011. Kent State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1302656178.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Adams, Brittany. "From Postmodernism to Psychoanalysis: Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1302656178
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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