Naslov
Gravity's Rainbow: Fragmentation, Posthistory, Speed, and the Historical Forces of the Atomic Age

Autori
Gruić Grmuša, Lovorka

Izvornik
Ege İngiliz ve Amerikan incelemeleri dergisi (1300-574X) 18 (2009), 2; 71-84

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Thomas Pynchon ; Gravity's Rainbow ; fragmented narrative ; posthistory ; post-war period

Sažetak
Focusing on Thomas Pynchon's masterpiece Gravity’s Rainbow, this paper gives an insight into posthistorical characteristics of the modern history, projecting disrupted, discontinuous temporality which can only be expressed in a fragmented narrative field. Marking the beginning of a new era, the novel depicts an evolving postmodern society which announces the end of history as it was understood before. But posthistory does not indicate a closure of the historical process in the conventional sense, it rather means fragmenting the perspective and speeding up the temporal experience that tends to erase historical differences and to open up the present to a multitude of historical moments. Deliberately structured in a fragmentary manner to disrupt the reader’s expectations of the linear, teleological progression that one expects from history, the novel offers meticulously detailed data about world history, focusing on the last months of WWII and its devastating consequences in the post-war period.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti, Književnost

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