THE CULTURAL CRITIQUE OF PLASTIC IN GRAVITY'S RAINBOW

[rich]

could say the same for most of the Recognitions and alot of JR (where the
plastic is quite elastic)


On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 9:26 PM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:

> Katherine Gibson Sharpe
>
> This essay attempts to get a grasp on Pynchon's 700-plus page
> omnibus, Gravity's Rainbow , by focusing on the development of a single
> motif in the novel: plastic. It argues that Pynchon takes 1960s and 1970s
> critiques of supply-driven consumer capitalism, of which plastic was a
> visible emblem, and makes them more emphatic by placing them into a
> fictionalized version of the prewar years and the 1940s.
>
> http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/5906/1/k%20sharpe%20-%20pynchon%20thesis.pdf
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