The varieties of paranoia in 'Gravity's Rainbow' | Posted on:1999-12-05 | Degree:M.A | Type:Thesis | University:McGill University (Canada) | Candidate:Pooley, Charles | Full Text:PDF | GTID:2460390014971868 | Subject:Literature | Abstract/Summary: | | This paper is an investigation into the way that paranoia is represented in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow. Using various definitions of paranoia which are given in the text itself, I outline how each definition is demonstrated, both in narrative events and in the structural principles of the text. As well, I show how each definition may lend a different perspective on the reading process itself, thus implicating the Pynchon's reader in the paranoid dynamic which Gravity's Rainbow depicts. In effect, I attempt to return the pluralism to Pynchon's definition of paranoia. | Keywords/Search Tags: | Paranoia, Pynchon's | | Related items |
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