<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">I study at Penn, and I know people doing a Gravity's Rainbow class right now. So there's still some Pynchon in the Ivy League...<br><br>all the best,<br>Don<br><br>On Oct 12, 2012, at 11:32 AM, Paul Mackin <<a href="mailto:mackin.paul@verizon.net">mackin.paul@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<br><br>> On 10/12/2012 11:03 AM, Matthew Cissell wrote:<br>>> It would make an interesting study to compare Wood's reading of A Sentime=<br>ntal Education with Bourdieu's. Mr Wood is fair enough when addressing the f=<br>ormal aspects of fiction, its mechanics if you will, but does that surprise a=<br>nyone? He studied under Kermode, he's an Oxford chap. If we agree with his c=<br>ategories and judgements that is likely because, to some degree, we share hi=<br>s orthodoxy.<br>>=20<br>> Here's a question: How does one account for
the more conservative literar=<br>y values associated with Oxford as compared with, say, Sussex, where Pynchon=<br> studies seem to be going strong? I can't remember ever hearing P's name me=<br>ntioned in connection with Oxbridge. Same in America with the Ivy League. I=<br>t can't be a class thing, because smart poor kids have be going everywhere s=<br>ince WWII. It's just that tradition dies hard I suppose. Or what?<br>>=20<br>> P</div></body></html>