Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

[rich]

lot 49 in a nutshell

odeipa is not a "typical girl"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyXGblps64M

rich

On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 4:21 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yale / English
> Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
> By Amy Hungerford | The American Novel Since 1945 Lecture 12 of 26
>
>
> Lecture Description
>
> Professor Hungerford introduces this lecture by reviewing the ways
> that authors on the syllabus up to this point have dealt with the
> relationship between language and life, that collection of elusive or
> obvious things that for literary critics fall under the category of
> "the Real." The Real can shout out from a work of art, as it sometimes
> does in Black Boy, or haunt it, as in Lolita. It can elude authors
> like Kerouac and Barth for widely different reasons. Placing Pynchon
> firmly in the context of the political upheaval of the 1960s that he
> is often seen to avoid, Hungerford argues that Pynchon--no less than a
> writer of faith like Flannery O'Connor--is deeply invested in
> questions of meaning and emotional response, so that The Crying of Lot
> 49 is a sincere call for connection, and a lament for loss, as much as
> it is an ironic, playful puzzle.
> Course Description
>
> In "The American Novel Since 1945" students will study a wide range of
> works from 1945 to the present. The course traces the formal and
> thematic developments of the novel in this period, focusing on the
> relationship between writers and readers, the conditions of
> publishing, innovations in the novel's form, fiction's engagement with
> history, and the changing place of literature in American culture. The
> reading list includes works by Richard Wright, Flannery O'Connor,
> Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, J. D. Salinger, Thomas Pynchon, John
> Barth, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Marilynne Robinson, Cormac
> McCarthy, Philip Roth and Edward P. Jones. The course concludes with a
> contemporary novel chosen by the students in the class.
>
> http://academicearth.org/lectures/thomas-pynchon-the-crying-of-lot-49
>