Date of Award
2015
First Advisor
Rebecca Fiske
Second Advisor
Bernard Rodgers
Abstract
This essay endeavors foremost to examine the remarkable political potential of the historical novel as a genre. By reflecting the work of such theorists as Walter Benjamin and Marx on Thomas Pynchon’s seminal historical novel Gravity’s Rainbow, such potential as previously mentioned on the part of the more general genre occupied by Pynchon’s piece can come to light. Indeed, Gravity’s Rainbow appears in this analysis to be an exemplar of the potential for the postmodern historical novel and to exceed previously set boundaries pertaining to the definition of literature itself.
Recommended Citation
Long, Cary, "An Analysis of Gravity’s Rainbow: On the Radical Politics of the Historical Novel" (2015). Senior Theses. 965.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/sr-theses/965
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