Slothrop's Sublime: Perversion and Paranoia in Gravity's Rainbow
This paper examines how the protagonist of Gravity’s Rainbow, Tyrone Slothrop, seeks subjective fixity in the historical and postmodern sublime. Using an approach that draws upon the theories of Freud, Lacan, and Zizek, the essay argues that while Slothrop indulges his own paranoia and commits acts...
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Digital Archive @ GSU
2012
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| Online Access: | http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/124 http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1131&context=english_theses |