Seeking COL49 critical source

[keith woodward]

Stripping off the Layers: Evaluating Allegory in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying
of Lot 49
by Ronna Privett
Literature and Technology
http://chimera.acs.ttu.edu/~ykfrp/pynchon.html


(The section on DFW in this article sucks!)

Yours ever, 

Keith W



At 02:00 PM 12/14/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi, all.  I'm trying to track down an article, and am at something of a
>loss.  I've got these quotes, and I know I've read them before, but I can't
>remember where.  Do any of these ring any bells?
>
>"Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 promises a solution it does not
>explicitly deliver by the end of the novel."
>
>"In The Crying of Lot 49, Oedipa moves from sign to sign, always trying to
>work beneath the layers of meaning to discover the true, underlying meaning.
>While the reader tries to solve the mystery with Oedipa, the results of the
>search are foreshadowedwithin the central allegorical image of Oedipa's
>search, the game called 'Strip Botticelli.'"
>
>"David Cowart describes the Varo painting viewed by Oedipa in Mexico City.
>Interestingly, while the painting is described very realistically in both
>texts, Cowart notes that Pynchon only describes a portion of the central
>panel."
>
>Thanks!
>
>K.
>
>
>***********************
>Kathleen Fitzpatrick
>Department of English
>Media Studies Program
>Pomona College
>kfitzpatrick at pomona.edu
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>
>
>
keith w