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The Negotiation of Entropies in Thomas Pynchon’s V | ||
Journal of Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature: Dynamics and Advances | ||
مقاله 9، دوره 9، شماره 1، تیر 2021، صفحه 163-181 اصل مقاله (428.32 K) | ||
نوع مقاله: Research Article | ||
شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22049/jalda.2021.27088.1251 | ||
نویسنده | ||
Mehdi Azari Samani* | ||
Assistant Professor of English Language and Literature, Department of English language and Literature, Sheikhbahaee University, Isfahan, Iran | ||
چکیده | ||
This paper analyses Thomas Pynchon’s V. (1961) in light of two contradictory scientific perspectives and argues that Pynchon uses complex science-based formulations on different semantic levels to give shape to a seemingly shapeless world of uncertainty. V. is considered by many critics a historiographic metafiction which evolves through certain new readings of the early 20th century Europe’s colonialism and is given a sense of uncertainty to historical consciousness via Pynchon’s postmodernist style. This paper suggests that though Pynchon uses the techniques (on the syntactical level) which define postmodernism and create a pandemonium of complexity and meaninglessness, he leaves hidden blueprints which give shape and order to the syntactical and semantic chaos created in his works. To achieve this goal, the main methodological focus of the paper would be on Claude. E. Shannon’s (1948) “information theory.” | ||
کلیدواژهها | ||
Chaos Entropy؛ Information Entropy؛ Noise؛ V | ||
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