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

[Alex Colter]

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On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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