The First Page with Thomas C. Foster: THE CRYING OF LOT 49 by Thomas Pynchon

Here's a video to show your students before they tackle Thomas Pynchon's THE CRYING OF LOT 49. Thomas C. Foster, professor at the University of Michigan and author of HOW TO READ LITERATURE LIKE A PROFESSOR, shows students how the first page of a novel holds the key to style, point of view, narrative identity—and other important clues to what is to come. Here, he walks students through the first page of Thomas Pynchon's THE CRYING OF LOT 49.

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• crying of lot 49
• thomas pynchon
• thomas c. foster
• the first page video series

[gloomn2]

It helps me a lot with my HW. :)