Arc of the Absent AuthorThomas Pynchon's Trajectory from Entropy to Grace

  1. CISSELL, MATTHEW CLAYTON
Supervised by:
  1. Ángel Chaparro Sáinz Director
  2. María Felisa López Liquete Director

Defence university: Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Fecha de defensa: 08 March 2017

Committee:
  1. Francisco Collado Rodríguez Chair
  2. Raúl Montero Gilete Secretary
  3. Carme Manuel Committee member
Department:
  1. Filología Inglesa y Alemana y Traducción e Intepretación

Type: Thesis

Teseo: 121542 DIALNET lock_openADDI editor

Abstract

In the simplest of terms this dissertation draws on the work of Pierre Bourdieu to study Thomas Pynchon¿s novel Againts the Day, to do so involves study of the US literary field, the history of positions that Pynchon has occupied, and the resultant trajectory that can be derived from that. This method analyzes the sociogenesis of the author¿s habitus and thus the practice that produces the literary product being studied.