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In the book “the crying of lot 49,” Oedipa is the paradigm to show how vulnerable the man has become to the systems of information designed by him.... The information system retards the individual growth and threatens the self.... In the new circumstances she is thrusts in, Oedipa suffers nervous breakdown....
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Essay
As the paper "The Theme of the crying of lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon" outlines, Thomas Pynchon published the novel, the crying of lot 49, in nineteen sixty-six.... It contains a lot of innovation, creativity, and comes out as irritating.... The book is a collection of pop culture, paranoia, and history....
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Essay
This is particularly the case with the novels Slaughterhouse 5, by Kurt Vonnegut and the crying of lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon.... he intertextuality of the crying of lot 49 is to be found initially within the very names of the characters.... Most texts refer, in one way or another, to other works in the past....
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Book Report/Review
In this paper, the author cites the examples from two well-respected and critically acclaimed authors, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo, to illustrate how they achieve the metaphor of false epiphany in contemporary perspectives, namely sociological and technical.... .... ... ... Early nineteenth-century literature saw the emergence of a modernist movement, which sought to up-end the staid norms of literature....
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Assignment
A recurring theme that can be found in Thomas Pynchon's novel the crying of lot 49 is that confusion has a tremendous effect on society and that in order to counter it one must always be in motion, juggling the constant influx of information and images one receives in an.... ... ...
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Essay
Another important piece of literature to the discussion is Neuromancer by William Gibson and finally the crying of Lot49 by Pynchon Thomas.... The paper "The Danger of Individualism and the Human Relationship to Technology" tells that fictional stories have been used to caution people about what will happen if a certain crime is committed....
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Essay
The paper "The Virgin Suicides, the crying of lot 49, Detroit, An American Autopsy - Life Full of Scandals and Misfortunes" is a perfect example of an annotated bibliography on literature.... the crying of lot 49.... The story focuses on the life of the Cherubic Lisbon in which the many people have been reported of having committed suicide....
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Annotated Bibliography
This paper will focus on discussing the concepts of metafiction and hyperreality in the book titled Ulysses by James Joyce, the crying of lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, The Passion by Jeanette Winterson.... This paper "Fiction, Truth, and Reality in Modernist Literature" discusses the relationship between fiction, truth, and reality in modernist and the postmodernist literature....
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Book Report/Review