« 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...

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Hoofdauteur: Méresse, Bastien
Formaat: Article ou chapitre numérique
Taal:Français
Gepubliceerd in: 2019
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Online toegang:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Samenvatting: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.