La rete musicale. Citazione e comunicazione in “The Crying of the Lot 49” di Thomas Pynchon
Exploring the intricate intertextual network underlying Thomas Pynchon’s second novel, The Crying of Lot 49, this article focuses on two musical quotations from Béla Bartók and the Beatles. Both are linked to a tangled web of further references, throwing light on the socio-cultural concerns on which...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Prof. Rinaldo Rinaldi
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Parole Rubate : Rivista Internazionale di Studi sulla Citazione |
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| Online Access: | http://www.parolerubate.unipr.it/fascicolo20_pdf/F20_14_francucci_pynchon.pdf |
| Summary: | Exploring the intricate intertextual network underlying Thomas Pynchon’s second novel, The Crying of Lot 49, this article focuses on two musical quotations from Béla Bartók and the Beatles. Both are linked to a tangled web of further references, throwing light on the socio-cultural concerns on which Pynchon’s writing is based, that is to say the interference between Europe and the United States as a consequence of the Second World War, and the banalization of culture due to the increasingly wider networks of global communication. |
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| ISSN: | 2039-0114 |