«She hangs on the western wall»: Breaking the Myth of the Renaissance in Thomas Pynchon’s V.

Since the time of its publication in 1963, Pynchon’s first novel V. has been triggering an intense and still ongoing critical debate upon the function of history and tradition in contemporary literature. As a specimen of postmodern historiographic metafiction, V. enacts complex intertextual strat...

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Main Author: Razzi, Francesca
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari 2019-09-01
Series:Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie Occidentale
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Online Access:https://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-occidentale/2019/53/she-hangs-on-the-western-wall-breaking-the-myth-of/