A Study of Pynchon from the Perspective of Novel Theory

通过对扎克·史密斯的每一幅《地心引力》的《彩虹》插图的辨认，从媒介的角度以及从死后研究提供的关于主体问题的新视角，本研究发现，托马斯·品钦的《第49批的哭泣》和《地心引力的彩虹》从前者的传统特权到后者的英雄化灯泡，代表了一种“小说主义”人的危机，或者说是认识论的《看见》主体的改变。

Reconsidering the “novelistic” human both from the intermedia viewpoint achieved by identifying the content of each of Zak Smith’s Gravity’s Rainbowillustrations and from the new perspective on the question of the subject provided by posthuman studies, this research has shown that Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49and Gravity’s Rainbow, where one can observe a change in the dominant way of seeing from the former’s conventional privileging of the “eye” to the latter’s heroization of a light bulb, represent a crisis of the “novelistic” human, or the epistemological “seeing” subject.