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

[Alex Colter]

I say, Reginald, have all former notions of Decency been thrown clear out
the Window? Those saucy Suffragette's were bad enough... a Professor baring
her Bosom to a class of over-excitable Underclassmen, once the job of the
College Widow, now a required for any sort of Tenure, wotwot

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com> wrote:

> She's not bad looking, either!
>
> BTW, closed captioning is available!
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> --
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> AsB4,
> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
> Henry Mu
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>
> 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
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> AsB4,
> >> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
> >> Henry Mu
> >> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
> >
>
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