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dc.contributor.authorLyew, Daniel Emerson
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-05T18:59:20Z
dc.date.available2023-10-05T18:59:20Z
dc.date.issued2021-05
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11122/14551
dc.descriptionMaster's Project (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2021en_US
dc.description.abstractThis paper introduces and uses Paul Feyerabend’s Epistemological Anarchism (EA) as an interpretive lens through which to read key passages in Thomas Pynchon’s 1997 novel Mason & Dixon. In particular, this paper uses EA to provide a novel and distinct way of understanding what Brian McHale terms the novel’s subjunctivity, or spaces of possibility. I use EA as a new framework for understanding the epistemological, ontological, and humanitarian/ethical dimensions of the novel’s subjunctive spaces, and hint at ways in which EA might be used in Pynchon’s other novels.en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subject.otherMaster of Arts in English Literatureen_US
dc.title'Who claims truth, truth abandons': epistemological anarchism in Pynchon's Mason & Dixonen_US
dc.title.alternative'Who claims truth, truth abandons': epistemological anarchism in Pynchon's Mason and Dixonen_US
dc.typeMaster's Projecten_US
dc.type.degreemaen_US
dc.identifier.departmentDepartment of Englishen_US
dc.contributor.chairJohnson, Sara
dc.contributor.chairReilly, Terry
dc.contributor.committeeCarr, Richard
dc.contributor.committeeFarmer, Daryl
refterms.dateFOA2023-10-05T18:59:21Z


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