Gothic Traces in the Metaphysical Detective Story: The Female Sleuth in Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 and Gibson’s Pattern Recognition
This essay argues that William Gibson’s novel Pattern Recognition (the first volume of his Blue Ant Trilogy) borrows from Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 as regards plot, character, narration, structure, imagery, and theme, even as it transforms these elements to reflect a post-9/11 world. The essay...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2016-07-01
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| Series: | Orbit: A Journal of American Literature |
| Online Access: | https://orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/424/ |