We Come and Go As We Please

[Henry Musikar]

"The relationship between modernism and postmodernism is often complicated
as both genres share certain similarities as well as differences. E.L.
Doctorow's Ragtime and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 are examples of
the relationship between these two genres. In both novels, discarded objects
play a crucial role in establishing the relationship between modernism and
postmodernism. Throughout both of these texts, there are numerous examples
of not only discarded objects, but also discarded people and ideas. This
recurrent theme intertwines itself within both of these novels and becomes
vital to the understanding of the relationship between modernism and
postmodernism. This first article will entail a discussion of The Crying of
Lot 49, which focuses on the heroine, Oedipa Mass, as she strives to uncover
the secrets behind the death of her recently deceased ex-boyfriend after
being named the executor of his will."

http://www.examiner.com/x-13462-West-Palm-Beach-Literature-Examiner~y2009m7d
19-Modernism-v-Postmodernism-part-one-The-Crying-of-Lot-49 

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