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Hrezo, Margaret. ""Something there is that does not love a wall"...Anxiety and the Quest for Order in "Mason and Dixon"" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209391_index.html>

Hrezo, M. S. , 2007-08-30 ""Something there is that does not love a wall"...Anxiety and the Quest for Order in "Mason and Dixon"" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2011-06-08 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209391_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: As do most scholarly pursuits, the politics and literature movement has developed its own dominant paradigm. Based on an Aristotelian framework, this paradigm has been a rich and productive source of insights into the nature and nurture of human order. It has produced elegant work. However, this paper�s primary interest is what might be beyond that paradigm. There have been relatively few attempts to study important works of the late 20th century, perhaps because many of the works of this period do not lend themselves to analysis through the dominant paradigm. Patrick Deneen�s piece on DeLillo�s White Noise and D.A. Hamlin�s work on Kurt Vonnegut are important exceptions. However, even they utilize the dominant framework to analyze their subjects. In particular the dominant paradigm in politics and literature does not seem well suited to a complete analysis of such 20th century mythopoets as Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, Jos� Saramago, and Toni Morrison. These very political authors seem to move beyond the traditional paradigm�s understanding of political order as a purely human product centered in real human life and the relationships that arise in the course of such lives (Nussbaum, Patel, Deneen and Romance, Whalen-Bridge, LaCapra, Ruderman, Booth). Instead, they view human beings as situated within a comprehending reality that is experienced and that must be acknowledged and incorporated into the human search for friendship, meaning, and order. This paper outlines a method of analysis for examining such works and applies it to one late 20th century work of mythopoesis--Thomas Pynchon�s Mason and Dixon. At the center of the discussion will be the portrait of the anxiety of existence (both individual and communal) that Pynchon draws in Mason and Dixon and the potential individual and political responses such anxiety evokes.

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