Vol.11, No 2, 2013 pp. 133 - 142
UDC 821.111(73)-31.09 Pynchon T.
PARODIC FORMS AND THEIR USE IN THOMAS PYNCHON'S THE CRYING OF LOT 49
Jovanka Kalaba
PhD Student of Literature, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, Serbia
E-mail: kalaba_3@yahoo.com
The paper explores different theoretical views of parody as one of the key elements of postmodern literature and how it is employed in Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49. The paper tackles parody's structural and functional features, such as allusive structural inclusion of different texts into the text of the novel and the effect produced by means of that inclusion, the possible polemical intentions of parody and the manner in which the polemic is induced and executed. The paper shows how Pynchon's parodic practice in The Crying of Lot 49 uses past cultural and language forms in order to make an evaluating context for those forms in the present time, and how the novel's different parodies are peculiarly randomized in an effort to both obfuscate and shed light on, to state nothingness, as well as to inspire subversion.
Key words: parody, Pynchon, humor, postmodernism
PARODIJSKE FORME I NJIHOVA UPOTREBA U OBJAVI BROJA 49 TOMASA PINČONA
Rad se bavi različitim teoretskim viđenjima parodije kao jednim od ključnih elemenata postmoderne književnosti i načinima na koje je upotrebljena u Pinčonovom romanu Objava broja 49. Fokus rada je na strukturalnim i funkcionalnim svojstvima parodije, kao što su strukturalna obuhvaćenost različitih „prethodnih" tekstova tekstom romana i efekat koji takva obuhvaćenost proizvodi, prostor za polemičnost koji parodične forme otvaraju i način na koji se polemika izaziva i sprovodi. Rad pokazuje na koji način parodija u Objavi broja 49 upotrebljava kulturološke i jezičke forme tradicija koje prethode postmodernizmu u cilju stvaranja konteksta u kojem dolazi do evaluacije tih formi u sadašnjem trenutku, i na koji način su različite parodije utkane u tekst romana tako da u isto vreme i navode na krivi put i rasvetljuju, i proglašavaju ništavilo ali i podstiču subverziju.
Ključne reči: parodija, Pinčon, humor, postmodernizam