Thomas Pynchon, the crying of lot 49 [The american novel since 1945]

Presents a class of Professor Amy Hungerford that introduces a lecture by reviewing the ways that authors on the syllabus up to this point have dealt with the relationship between language and life, that collection of elusive or obvious things that for literary critics fall under the category of "the Real." The Real can shout out from a work of art, as it sometimes does in Black Boy, or haunt it, as in Lolita. It can elude authors like Kerouac and Barth for widely different reasonsEducação Superior::Linguística, Letras e Artes::Letra