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American Research Journal of English and Literature
ISSN (Online): 2378-9026
DOI: 10.46568/arjel
A Haunted Journey by Specter—Oedipa’s Paranoiac Quest in The Crying of Lot 49
School of Foreign Studies, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China.
Wenjie Han, “A Haunted Journey by Specter—Oedipa’s Paranoiac Quest in The Crying of Lot 49”, American
Research Journal of English and Literature, Vol 9, no. 1, 2023, pp. 45-50.
Abstract
As a well-known writer of American postmodernism, Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49 have received extensive attention
and multi-dimensions interpretations from the critics. This paper will focus the various paranoid behaviors that Oedipa
displayed in the quest of the mysterious mail system Trystero through the trace of the origin of “paranoia”. It will explore
the alienation of individuals and even American society hidden beneath Oedipa’s quest from the perspective of alienation
proposed by Fromm.
