If You Could See Her Through My Eyes: The Unreadable Character in Djuna Barnes' Nightwood and Thomas Pynchon's V

Panel:

American Literature after 1865 II: Post-1945

Abstract:

My paper presents a comparison of Djuna Barnes' novel Nightwood and Thomas Pynchon's novel V. The paper discusses the connections between the female heroines of both novels, their construction and definition under the gaze of supporting characters, and Barnes' and Pynchon's views on Modernism, technology, and gender.

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First Name:

Jeff

Last Name:

Hicks

Institution:

University of California, Riverside

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PAMLA 2010 - Honolulu

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If You Could See Her Through My Eyes: The Unreadable Character in Djuna Barnes' Nightwood and Thomas Pynchon's V

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