Truth, Reality, and Pynchon’s V - From Aestheticism to Dissemination

• 영문명: Truth, Reality, and Pynchon’s V
• 발행기관: 한국영어어문교육학회
• 저자명: Gum-Hee Che
• 간행물 정보: 『영어어문교육』영어어문교육 제13권 제3호, 99~116쪽, 전체 18쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2007.09.30

영문 초록

  Indeterminacy, along with the traces of the unknown identity V, plays a crucial role in building a new possibility in the narrative V. While the characters search for the single identity of V, Pynchon never lets readers and critics reach any final destination or goal in analyzing the novel. Exploring the multiple possibilities and meanings of life, the characters merely keep traveling and searching, without ever reaching any final conclusion or destination. The journey without ever reaching a final destination equals going beyond the boundary and embracing the margins of various possibilities. It concerns the Others and breaks off the hierarchy of Western metaphysics, which is quite similar to what the theorists of deconstruction seek to do. The search without ever reaching a final destination not only designates the multifarious aspect of truth, but it also suggests the possibility of the multiple meanings of words that the characters create. Just as their stories are abundant, the meaning that they produce with their stories can be open-ended. The notion of indeterminacy and broadness in this text, which can be well explained by Derrida, makes it possible for one to search for something other than the fixed meanings or truth claims. The text becomes multifarious in meaning as well as in structure, thus rejecting any kind of singular signifying act.

목차

Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION
Ⅱ. FROM AESTHETICISM TO DISSEMINATION
Ⅲ. CONCLUSION
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키워드

postmodern literature multifarious aspect indeterminacy