ENGL 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Semiotics, Oedipus Complex, English Literature
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We expect the follow a plot to come to a conclusion, we are frustrated if we do not get what we expect. Considered one of most important novelists of second half of. Crying of lot 49 for some people first post modern novel. No one knows who pynchon is - most reclusive author. Now lives in california, author of 7 novels, new one coming out this year. Popular culture in a difficult novel like rich"s combination of man and woman in hermaphrodoict novel - challenge binaries - man and woman are separate and pynchon critiques binary that keeps high culture and low culture separate. The way in which fiction reflects on itself, how it thinks of itself as a novel in the novel itself. Throw the relationship between author and reader into question - books referring to themselves as books.