New Essays on the Crying of Lot 49

Zusammenfassung In the introduction to this collection of essays! the editor discusses the background and critical reception of "The Crying of Lot 49". Further essays provide an examination of the novel within its literary! historical and scientific contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series editor's preface; 1. Introduction Patrick O'Donnell; 2. Borges and Pynchon: the tenuous symmetries of art Debra A. Castillo; 3. Toward the schizo-text: paranoia as semiotic regime in The Crying of Lot John Johnston; 4. 'Hushing sick transmissions': disrupting story in The Crying of Lot Bernard Duyfhuizen; 5. 'A metaphor of od knew how many parts': the engine that drives The Crying of Lot N. Katherine Hayles; 6. A re-cognition of her errand into the wilderness Pierre-Yves Petillon; Selected bibliography.

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• Authors: &apos, Patrick Donnell, O&apos, Patrick O''''donnell, Patrick (West Virginia University) O''''donnell
• Assisted by: Emory Elliot (Editor), Patrick O'Donnell (Editor), O'Donnell Patrick (Editor), O'Donnell Patrick (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.1992
• EAN: 9780521381635
• ISBN: 978-0-521-38163-5
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: American Novel (Hardcover); The American Novel
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, American English, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form