Gravity's Rainbow, domination, and freedom /

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When published in 1973, Gravity's Rainbow expanded our sense of what the novel could be. Pynchon's extensive references to modern science, history, and culture challenged any reader, while his prose bent the rules for narrative art and his satirical practices taunted U.S. obscenity and por...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Herman, Luc
Other Authors: Weisenburger, Steven
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Pynchon, Thomas. > Gravity's rainbow
Pynchon, Thomas. > Gravity's rainbow.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "What's free?" (an introduction)
  • Novel and decade
  • Fromm and the neo-Freudian library
  • Marcuse: (no) chances for freedom in advanced industrial society
  • Brown's polymorphous perversity and Marcuse's repressive
  • Total assault on the culture
  • The law and the liberation of fantasy
  • Controlling Slothrop
  • War as a cartel project
  • Working for the Nazis
  • The logic of the camp
  • Liberating narration
  • Narrating liberation
  • Tyrone Slothrop's "fuck you!"
  • "Too late" (a conclusion).

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