ENGL 1760J - Pynchon and His Precursors

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Brown University

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A study not of how Thomas Pynchon's work has influenced American literature, but of how his novels have influenced the way we read writers who came before him. We will read V and Gravity's Rainbow, as well as work by Borges, Highsmith, Ellison, Nabokov, Fitzgerald, Kafka, and Rilke. Limited to 20 senior and junior concentrators in English and Comparative Literature. Others admitted by permission only.

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0.00 - 1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.brown.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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