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Visions of America in Thomas Pynchon's Novels
Continuity of Motifs from the 1960s to the Present Day
Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021. urn:nbn:hr:131:533114
Fajt, Paula
University of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English language and literature

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Fajt, P. (2021). Visions of America in Thomas Pynchon's Novels : Continuity of Motifs from the 1960s to the Present Day (Master's thesis). Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:533114

Fajt, Paula. "Visions of America in Thomas Pynchon's Novels : Continuity of Motifs from the 1960s to the Present Day." Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:533114

Fajt, Paula. "Visions of America in Thomas Pynchon's Novels : Continuity of Motifs from the 1960s to the Present Day." Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2021. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:533114

Fajt, P. (2021). 'Visions of America in Thomas Pynchon's Novels : Continuity of Motifs from the 1960s to the Present Day', Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 07 July 2024, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:533114

Fajt P. Visions of America in Thomas Pynchon's Novels : Continuity of Motifs from the 1960s to the Present Day [Master's thesis]. Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2021 [cited 2024 July 07] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:533114

P. Fajt, "Visions of America in Thomas Pynchon's Novels : Continuity of Motifs from the 1960s to the Present Day", Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, 2021. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:533114

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TitleVisions of America in Thomas Pynchon's Novels : Continuity of Motifs from the 1960s to the Present Day
AuthorPaula Fajt
MentorStipe Grgas (mentor)
Committee memberJelena Šesnić (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee memberSven Cvek (član povjerenstva)
GranterUniversity of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English language and literature)
Zagreb
Defense date and country2021-09-20, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
Tomashevsky describes several key notions in the Russian Formalism that can be used as tools for analyzing novels. In this essay, concepts such as theme, several different classifications of motifs and the notion of motivation are being used to analyze three novels by the American author Thomas Pynchon. Even though only two of the three novels share the same chronotope, the author achieves a sense of continuity using and subverting the same clue-puzzle structure of the fabula. The conventional search for the murderer is replaced by other criminal activities. Each investigation is conducted by a protagonist that fits well into the disadvantaged type required by the conventional murder mystery. Compositional motifs from popular culture that migrate from one novel to another also help shape a sense of continuity between the literary works. Descriptions of spaces are artistically motivated in all three novels, whereas realistic motifs anchor the novels in space and time and provide social commentary.
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:131:533114
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Linguistics, Literature and Culture, Translation, TEFL
Course: Literature and Culture
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
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