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Engelen, Gijs van (2019)

Now Everybody! The Interactive Circles of Gravity's Rainbow and Infinite Jest

Bachelor thesis | Film- en literatuurwetenschap (BA)
Central to this thesis are Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest. It is argued that both enforce an interactive reading process through circular motifs and narrative structures. These interactive, "circular" readings coincide with the novels' political and psychological themes, so form and content support each other, which contradicts some critical clichés surrounding postmodernist literature.
Postmodernism
post-postmodernism
New Sincerity
David Foster Wallace
Thomas Pynchon
Infinite Jest
Gravity's Rainbow
Author
Engelen, Gijs van
Faculty
Faculty of Humanities
Specialisation
Literatuur
Supervisors
Alphen, Ernst van
ECTS Credits
10
Language
en