engl 291: The American Novel Since 1945, Lecture 12 - Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

[David Morris]

Prof. Hungerford seems an  insightful guy.

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-291/lecture-12
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> 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.
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> Henry Mu
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