{"title":"Structure and Resistance in Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge","authors":"S. Grgas","doi":"10.38003/CCSR.1.1-2.6","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"From his first to his last novel, Pynchon has addressed the “constraints” hemming in\nhuman existence and gestured to different ways of transcending these. After summarizing the way his novels exemplify this twofold movement I will offer a reading of his\nlast novel Bleeding Edge and show how the dialectic between structures of power and\nhuman resistance continue to order the narrative. My reading of the novel will argue\nthat, like in his previous work, the cooption of utopian potential resurfaces in this work\nand offers a vivid way of analyzing “speculative change” in literature.","PeriodicalId":51871,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Studies Review","volume":"8 1","pages":"111-126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cultural Studies Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.38003/CCSR.1.1-2.6","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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From his first to his last novel, Pynchon has addressed the “constraints” hemming in
human existence and gestured to different ways of transcending these. After summarizing the way his novels exemplify this twofold movement I will offer a reading of his
last novel Bleeding Edge and show how the dialectic between structures of power and
human resistance continue to order the narrative. My reading of the novel will argue
that, like in his previous work, the cooption of utopian potential resurfaces in this work
and offers a vivid way of analyzing “speculative change” in literature.
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Cultural Studies Review is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the publication and circulation of quality thinking in cultural studies—in particular work that draws out new kinds of politics, as they emerge in diverse sites. We are interested in writing that shapes new relationships between social groups, cultural practices and forms of knowledge and which provides some account of the questions motivating its production. We welcome work from any discipline that meets these aims. Aware that new thinking in cultural studies may produce a new poetics we have a dedicated new writing section to encourage the publication of works of critical innovation, political intervention and creative textuality.
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