“’Tis a reckless Debowch of a Game”: Chance and Resistance in Thomas Pynchon’s Novels

This paper seeks to consider games — and more particularly card games and gambling — as an American form of resistance in Thomas Pynchon’s novels. As opposed to agôn, a category of games that Roger Caillois delineates in Man, Play and Games (1958) as “a combat in which equality of chances is artific...

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Hlavní autor:	Meresse, Bastien
Médium:	Artigo
Jazyk:	Inglês
Vydáno:	Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur 2020
Témata:	capitalisme littérature américaine jeu Pynchon Thomas capitalism American literature gambling
On-line přístup:	https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.2672 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13089/9n14 https://journals.openedition.org/angles/2672
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