... of the American Self details the implications of this outlook for colonial American literature West, Pynchon, Mailer, and the Jeremiad 261 and beyond. For my purposes, the bewilderingjourney of the self in Puritan experience has as its model Pynchon s Oedipa Maas, whose passage from the deadening world...

... separating our world from another and invests itself in human flesh. Oedipa Maas in The Crying of Lot 49 finds herself enclosed in a web of magic, anonymous and malignant, visited on her from out­ side and for no reason at all (p. 11), and like her Sophoclean name­ sake must follow a skein of clues which...

... . Philadelphia : Temple University Press . Kocela Christopher . 1999 . “The Ends of Legal Fetishism: Oedipa Maas as Postmodern Cartographer.” Oklahoma City University Law Review 24 , no. 3 : 624 – 40 . Kotkavirta Jussi . 1998 . “Observations on Arendt, Kant, and the Autonomy...

... for a new soft drink,Coke IIslappedoncement-block walls’’ and ‘‘has the crazy idea that these advertising placards herald the presence of the Maoist group’’ (M Like Oedipa Maas in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot Brita...

... to terminal, subject to subject. In this formula, cyberspace is a virtual playground of desire as excess. For do we in fact need all this information, on demand? The act of chatting is more significant than the chat. More important than what millennial Oedipae ask is how and where they ask it, by what...