Pynchon describes her optimistic view as a "growing obsession". ... Pynchon creates understanding of the doctor's foolish idea with the analogy "that the unconscious would be like any other room, once the light was let in." To compare the unconscious mind to a room is a preposterous assumption. ... Thomas Pynchon expands and explains his argument with the theme of the inability to understand. ... Each time Oedipa views one of the post horns it hurts her because she does not understand the meaning. ...

• Word Count: 3055
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

In the "realistic" novel the reader deals with plot objectivation, and in "romantic" - with subject. ... The technique of the plot formation in the dialogical novel is realized in artly productive interaction of the theme and problem. The theme intention of the author is corrected by apofatic unpredictability of the hero, and the consciousness of the apofatic hero extends due to the author. ... Besides the 32-years paleontologist was engaged with Ernestine, a doll of Victorian epoch. ... In turn, Sarah, "being professed" by Charles in her feeling to the French lieutenant, admitting that she ga...

• Word Count: 2592
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This is very much the case with Oedipa as well. ... Thoth deals with real Indians and imaginary Indians. ... The most pristine image of this isolation comes early in chapter five, when Pynchon writes, "Oedipa sat, feeling as alone as she ever had, now the only woman, she saw, in a room full of drunken male homosexuals." ... This theme will become even more pronounced in upcoming sections. ... The narrative is consistent, the plot moves along rapidly, and the point of view remains stable. ...

• Word Count: 2590
• Approx Pages: 10

All three chosen texts explore these relationships differently; Jane Eyre's close friendship with Helen, Jeanette's amorous tryst with Melanie and the apparent hatred between Tamora and Lavinia. ... This quote demonstrates to us how alone Jane must have felt living with these people she not only had little in common with but also verbally and physically abused her. When a stranger visits the house Jane says she felt 'inexpressible relief, a soothing conviction of protection and security' because 'there was a stranger in the room' Bronte uses this descriptive and...

• Word Count: 3018
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the mid-1980s, just as the new historicists, with their invocation of "the historicity of texts and the textuality of history," were transforming the way readers understood the English Renaissance, Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose became both a critical success and a bestseller. (1983) Widely celebrated as a postmodern historical novel, this dazzling mixture of thick historical research and popular detective fiction invited its readers to view historical fiction as an academically respectable genre and a vehicle for recovering and reimagining the past in unconventional ways...

• Word Count: 4697
• Approx Pages: 19
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate