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“What Arises from This?”: The Autostereogrammatical in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon

Jordan, J; (2015) “What Arises from This?”: The Autostereogrammatical in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction , 56 (3) pp. 270-283. 10.1080/00111619.2014.897932. Green open access

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Abstract

The figure of the autostereogram recurs with frequency in Mason & Dixon. It invokes a particular mode of seeing and provides a new model by which we might read the novel and its central preoccupations: bifocularity, layering, lines, haunting, and encryption. This essay argues that Pynchon’s text is thus informed by an autostereogrammatical paradox, promising secretion in depth, while simultaneously celebrating the opacity of the surface.

Type: Article
Title: “What Arises from This?”: The Autostereogrammatical in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2014.897932
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00111619.2014.897932
Additional information: © Julia Jordan This is an Open Access article. Non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly attributed, cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way, is permitted. The moral rights of the named author(s) have been asserted.
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1471408
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