'Who claims truth, truth abandons': epistemological anarchism in Pynchon's Mason & Dixon
dc.contributor.author | Lyew, Daniel Emerson | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-10-05T18:59:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-10-05T18:59:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-05 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11122/14551 | |
dc.description | Master's Project (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2021 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This 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.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Master of Arts in English Literature | en_US |
dc.title | 'Who claims truth, truth abandons': epistemological anarchism in Pynchon's Mason & Dixon | en_US |
dc.title.alternative | 'Who claims truth, truth abandons': epistemological anarchism in Pynchon's Mason and Dixon | en_US |
dc.type | Master's Project | en_US |
dc.type.degree | ma | en_US |
dc.identifier.department | Department of English | en_US |
dc.contributor.chair | Johnson, Sara | |
dc.contributor.chair | Reilly, Terry | |
dc.contributor.committee | Carr, Richard | |
dc.contributor.committee | Farmer, Daryl | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2023-10-05T18:59:21Z |