« The details ooze away as the sounds of garbage trucks grow » — transactions et transmutations du déchet dans Bleeding Edge de Thomas Pynchon

This article considers rag-picking or the collecting of refuse as a method for the scrutiny of what has been demoted to the status of meaningless detail in Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge . While the examination of detail is shaped by the process of sorting looked-over yet valuable materials, Pyncho...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Méresse, Bastien
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprache:Français
Veröffentlicht: 2019
Schlagworte:
Online Zugang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:This article considers rag-picking or the collecting of refuse as a method for the scrutiny of what has been demoted to the status of meaningless detail in Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge . While the examination of detail is shaped by the process of sorting looked-over yet valuable materials, Pynchon completes his study of waste as a means to achieve a new division of the perceptible, whereby the emergence of an écriture flâneuse recycles and rehabilitates the landfill of words dumped into the novel.