- B.
Lippincott & Co. The
shortest of Pynchon's novels, the plot
follows Oedipa Maas, a
young Californian woman who
begins to
embrace a
conspiracy theory...
-
events of the play
broadly mirror those of the
novel and give the
character Oedipa Maas a
greater context to
consider her predicament; the play
concerns a...
-
other similarly bizarre revelations that
confront the novel's protagonist,
Oedipa Maas. Like V., the
novel contains a
wealth of
references to
science and...
- such as metafiction,
ideogrammatic characterization,
unrealistic names (
Oedipa Maas,
Benny Profane, etc.), plot
elements and
hyperbolic humor, deliberate...
- "The Scope", a bar with "a
strict electronic music policy".
Protagonist Oedipa Maas asks "a hip graybeard"
about a "sudden
chorus of
whoops and yibbles"...
- is boring. In
Thomas Pynchon's
novel The
Crying of Lot 49,
protagonist Oedipa Maas
plays a game they call "Strip Botticelli" with
lawyer Metzger in her...
- post-structural
literary theory Cayce is
compared with the main character,
Oedipa Maas, of
Thomas Pynchon's The
Crying of Lot 49 as
detectives interpreting...
- Nose Job" V.
Black Humor Dec 1965 "The
World (This One), the
Flesh (Mrs.
Oedipa Maas), and the
Testament of
Pierce Inverarity" The
Crying of Lot 49 Esquire...
-
density and
complexity of his
science fictions. The
fiction tells a
story of
Oedipa Maas, who is
entangled with the
dispute between two companies:
Thurn und...
- Post-structural
literary theorist Richard Skeates compared Cayce with
Oedipa Maas, the
protagonist of
Thomas Pynchon’s
novel The
Crying of Lot 49, as...
