Gravity's Rainbow, domination, and freedom / / Luc Herman and Steven Weisenburger

• Autore: Herman Luc
• Pubblicazione: Athens, Georgia : , : The University of Georgia Press, , 2013; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.54
• Altri autori: WeisenburgerSteven
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "What's free?" (an introduction) -- Novel and decade -- Fromm and the neo-Freudian library -- Marcuse: (no) chances for freedom in advanced industrial society -- Brown's polymorphous perversity and Marcuse's repressive -- Total assault on the culture -- The law and the liberation of fantasy -- Controlling Slothrop -- War as a cartel project -- Working for the Nazis -- The logic of the camp -- Liberating narration -- Narrating liberation -- Tyrone Slothrop's "fuck you!" -- "Too late" (a conclusion).
• Sommario/riassunto: When published in 1973, Gravity's Rainbow expanded our sense of what the novel could be. Pynchon's extensive references to modern science, history, and culture challenged any reader, while his prose bent the rules for narrative art and his satirical practices taunted U.S. obscenity and pornography statutes. His writing thus enacts freedom even as the book's great theme is domination: humanity's diminished ""chances for freedom"" in a global military-industrial system birthed and set on its feet in World War II. Its symbol: the V-2 rocket. . ""Gravity's Rainbow,"" Domination, and Freedom broadl
• Titolo autorizzato: Gravity's Rainbow, domination, and freedom
• ISBN: 0-8203-4595-4; 0-8203-4655-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827013303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II