A V and a Naught Spell Infinity (Using V Words and V Shapes in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow) (Critical Essay) A V and a Naught Spell Infinity (Using V Words and V Shapes in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow) (Critical Essay)

A V and a Naught Spell Infinity (Using V Words and V Shapes in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow) (Critical Essay‪)‬

Pynchon Notes 2002, Spring-Fall, 50-51

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1 One of the most obvious and exhausted aspects of Pynchon's works is surely the significance of the V-words in his first novel. Moreover, critics were quick to comment on the fact that the name of the major symbol in Gravity's Rainbow, the rocket, is homophonous with "V too," so the game of spotting the V could be extended into Pynchon's later works. The letter then served as a kind of trademark or signature when Vineland was published. Received wisdom has it that in V. the omnipresence of the initial creates an ever-increasing system of signifiers that cannot be brought together in any coherent way" the reader's attempt to find coherence resembles Stencil's endless search for the enigmatic woman V. and leads to a paranoid perspective on the world as text or the text as world.

GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2002
March 22
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
11
Pages
PUBLISHER
Pynchon Notes
SELLER
The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of Cengage Learning, Inc.
SIZE
190.2
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