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Entropy & Metaphor & Allegory: Unscrambling on Post-Modernism of Thomas Pynchon’s Works

Author(s)

Zhang Yan, Yu Liangqi

Affiliation(s)

Shihezi University, Xinjiang, Shihezi, China

Abstract

Thomas Pynchon, The American black humorist, has import “entropy” theory of Thermodynamics and Information theory into his literary eyeshot. His works from particular visual angle of entropy announce human society just among tremendous closing system, and turn confusion and disorder day by day, and finally will tend towards the tragic destiny of languishing and deathly stillness. Pynchon’s works by obscurity and mult-meaning’s metaphors and symbols introduce reader to admirable art labyrinth of entropy world; and by allegorize narrating resource of the post-modern literature construct new meaning text, and since his resisting entropy’s dissimilation to human beings by metaphor literary manner, Thomas Pynchon has been known as “anti-entropy hero”.

Keywords

Thomas Pynchon; Entropy; Metaphor; Allegory; Dissimilation

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