Csató, PéterUntener, János2013-06-142013-06-142009-12-152013-06-14http://hdl.handle.net/2437/170903The title of the thesis suggests a duality which—according to the interpretations we are going to mention—is a main organizing principle of The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by Thomas Pynchon. I am going to approach the subject and the interpretation of it from that point of view, based on primarily two critical essays.42enmetaphorentropyexpansionExpression, Reduction and the Question of Balance in the ContextdiplomamunkaAn Analysis of Two Critical Interpretations of Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49DEENK Témalista::Irodalomtudomány::Összehasonlító irodalomtudományip