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At a Loss|Lars Dittmer

At a Loss : The Postmodern Quests in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers

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Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam, course: HS: From Poe to Akunin: Highlights of the international Mystery Story in literature and film, language: English, abstract: This paper is building up on postmodern patterns of fragmentation, loneliness and disorientation. The Quest is a central storytelling technique - in times where traditional ways of living and social constellations fade and the grand narratives have lost their guiding functions, people have to "mind-map" their own routes through a fagmentary world. The paper establishes the quest form in the 1966 book by Pynchon and draws lines of tradition to Jarmusch's 2005 Browken Flowers.

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  • ISBN-13: 9783640123339
  • ISBN-10: 3640123336
  • Publisher: Grin Verlag
  • Publish Date: August 2008
  • Dimensions: 8.27 x 5.83 x 0.12 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.18 pounds
  • Page Count: 52

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