ENGL 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tabula Rasa, Gender Studies, Annamarie Jagose
19 Aug 2018
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"what oedipa maas forgets to include in her search is herself" abstract. "the narrative focuses on a once conventional suburban housewife who is. Stripped" of the men in her life and her old beliefs; more importantly, her once. "it is difficult to locate the lesbianism that answers its riddle" abstract. Is it difficult because maybe it isn"t really there. "the next story i wrote was the crying of lot 49", which was marketed as a. Novel", and in which i seem to have forgotten most of what i thought i"d learned up until then. " "are we dealing with an oedipa/oedipus who comports with sophocles, plato, or freud? " "what pynchon might have temporarily forgotten in lot 49 is what he learned about representing sexuality in v" 566. "pynchon might have partly disowned the novel because, despite its wide- ranging scope, it is also a one-note text, credibly reducible to an overdetermined resolution. "
