A Study of Pynchon from the Perspective of Novel Theory

本研究通过对扎克·史密斯的《万有引力的彩虹》插图内容的识别，从媒介视角和后人类研究提供的主题问题的新视角重新审视“小说”人类，表明托马斯·品钦的《拍卖品第49号的哭泣》和《万有引力的彩虹》，从前者传统的“眼睛”特权到后者的电灯泡英雄化，人们可以观察到主导观看方式的变化，这代表了“小说”人类或认识论“观看”主体的危机。

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.