/lit/ - Literature

>>22362167
>But plot is not the purpose of Ulysses, just a structure.
What's the purpose of Ulysses?

>>20589783
>It therefore struck me as surprising how little information I could find on Pynchon and the enlightenment, as discussed in Dialectic. Given the timing of his writing of Gravity’s Rainbow (and previous books) and the influence of Adorno and Horkheimer on the counterculture of the period, I was expecting to struggle to find a niche in this area, only to find—in my admittedly limited online search as I could not access plenty of databases—no articles directly linking either authors or works. It is not that the term enlightenment has never been brought up among Pynchon admirers, but the research that has been conducted centred more on the concept of spiritual enlightenment in his novels, rather than the enlightened science that lived well past the Age of Enlightenment. I could not go as in depth as I could have but given how much I had to leave out of this thesis for the sake of length there is future potential for more thorough research and analysis of enlightened criticism in Pynchon’s work.

This is one of the funniest things i've read in a long time. There is zero authority in "I even published a thesis" apparently. Good job lol