• Login
    View Item 
    •   NWU-IR Home
    • Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
    • Humanities
    • View Item
    •   NWU-IR Home
    • Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)
    • Humanities
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    The treatment of historical space in selected works by Thomas Pynchon

    Thumbnail
    View/Open
    kapp_w.pdf (3.375Mb)
    Date
    2004
    Author
    Kapp, Werner
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    This dissertation uses the concept of various "spaces" in a literary work to attain a historical perspective on selected works by Thomas Pynchon: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966); Gravity's Rainbow (1973) and Mason & Dixon (1997). The historical space forms the focal point for a discussion, since history is an important theme in Pynchon's novels. Different views of history can be constructed from each text by noting the interaction of the spaces and how they relate to the historical space. The Crying of Lot 49 focuses on the individual in relation to history from a post Second World War perspective. Gravity's Rainbow concentrates on the Second World War and war in general as a metaphor for the twentieth century and how this is situated historically. Mason & Dixon reaches further into history to the eighteenth century as the "Age of Reason" to explore it from postmodernism. Throughout shifts in emphasis the spaces in each novel can be successfully used to bring the theme of history to the fore and analyse it.
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10394/672
    Collections
    • Humanities [2696]

    Copyright © North-West University
    Contact Us | Send Feedback
    Theme by 
    Atmire NV
     

     

    Browse

    All of NWU-IR Communities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsAdvisor/SupervisorThesis TypeThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsAdvisor/SupervisorThesis Type

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    Copyright © North-West University
    Contact Us | Send Feedback
    Theme by 
    Atmire NV