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

[Henry M]

She's not bad looking, either!

BTW, closed captioning is available!

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Henry Mu
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On 2/16/12, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>> AsB4,
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>> Henry Mu
>> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
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