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Page 96
... Pynchon human beings drift into the category of the inanimate ' . Certainly V. , which is a highly impressive imaginative construction , is a monument to the possibilities of dehumanisation . If I prefer Pynchon to Barth , it is because ...
... Pynchon human beings drift into the category of the inanimate ' . Certainly V. , which is a highly impressive imaginative construction , is a monument to the possibilities of dehumanisation . If I prefer Pynchon to Barth , it is because ...
Page 98
... Pynchon ( and the large amount of research that must have been put into them ) . Where I find V. most interesting ... Pynchon's fascina- tion with the symbiosis of the mechanical and the organic ; it is evident even in the figurative ...
... Pynchon ( and the large amount of research that must have been put into them ) . Where I find V. most interesting ... Pynchon's fascina- tion with the symbiosis of the mechanical and the organic ; it is evident even in the figurative ...
Page 100
... Pynchon is interested in exploding the traditional ' well - made ' novel , by taking its conventions to the pitch of impossible elabora- tion . V. , and still more The Crying of Lot 49 , might be described as extended puns on the ...
... Pynchon is interested in exploding the traditional ' well - made ' novel , by taking its conventions to the pitch of impossible elabora- tion . V. , and still more The Crying of Lot 49 , might be described as extended puns on the ...
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Preface | 7 |
Character and Liberalism | 35 |
The Ideology of Being English | 56 |
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