Turier: Grigori & Katje

[jbor at bigpond.com]

'Dream of the Fisherman's Wife' by Hokusai (c. 1820)

http://www.jahsonic.com/Hokusai.html (scroll down for image and links)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dream_of_the_Fisherman%27s_Wife

(Links also posted late last year by Joe.)

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On 17/08/2005, at 7:06 AM, jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> Nice little 1992 essay which examines the influences of both the 
> tradition of Japanese erotica known as "tentacle rape" and British 
> research into arthropod brain functioning in the '50s and '60s on 
> Pynchon's representation of the scene with Katje and Grigori in GR 
> (pdf available):
>
> 'Pynchon's _Gravity's Rainbow_'
> by Christine Turier, _Explicator_ 50.4, Summer 1992, pp. 244-6.	
> Abstract: Makes observations concerning the bizarreness of the image 
> of the octopus Grigori's attack on Katje in Thomas Pynchon's novel 
> _Gravity's Rainbow_. The eroticism implied in this scene; speculation 
> as to whether Katje is truly afraid or she is knowing and willing 
> participant in the attack; additional points of literary evidence.
>
> best
>