Mo Mo Mo P Scholarship (this Dis is on Film)
alice wellintown
alicewellintown at gmail.com
Fri Jul 19 12:47:40 CDT 2013
If you don’t know movies you will never know Gravity’s Rainbow and you
will find no soft landing nor parachuted phallus banana into The Zone
(The Oz) of the novel’s “paracinematic” (388), oneiric narrative. His
referential obsession with cinema—sometimes direct, sometimes obtuse,
sometimes anachronistic, sometimes fictitious—speaks not only to the
dilemmatic theme of interpreting and reconciling appearance versus
reality, fact versus fiction, in the context of war, but to the
difficulty in literarily categorizing his novel’s style and its place
in twentieth century literature. Therefore, as a means of actively
alternating from literary history and its exhausted categorical
rubrics of modernism and postmodernism when working with Gravity’s
Rainbow, I suggest that the novel is better mapped onto a film
historical timeline as a means of best understanding its literary
design.31
https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10355/33115/research.pdf?sequence=2
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