The Qualified Optimism of Gravity's Rainbow

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dc.contributor.advisor	Sigman, J.	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Woodhead, Thomas	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2014-06-18T16:54:49Z	-
dc.date.available	2014-06-18T16:54:49Z	-
dc.date.created	2011-10-31	en_US
dc.date.issued	1985-09	en_US
dc.identifier.other	opendissertations/6452	en_US
dc.identifier.other	7487	en_US
dc.identifier.other	2321417	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11375/11489	-
dc.description.abstract	<p>Gravity's Rainbow is both an historical document that captures the Zeitgeist of the 1960s through allusions to the theoretical writings of such popular philosophers as Herbert Marcuse and Norman O. Brown, and a justification of the questioning spirit that motivated those writers. Pynchon uses their ideas along with many aspects of scientific theory to present a dark world which is essentially the negative of their optimism. The result, however, is not pessimism, but optimism qualified by the reality that necessitates it.</p>	en_US
dc.subject	English Language and Literature	en_US
dc.subject	English Language and Literature	en_US
dc.title	The Qualified Optimism of Gravity's Rainbow	en_US
dc.type	thesis	en_US
dc.contributor.department	English	en_US
dc.description.degree	Master of Arts (MA)	en_US
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