Pynchon classes

[Bill Konrad]

Penny Padgett wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>
>Ken Jones asks:
>
>> ... has anyone here ever taken (or know of someone who's taken) a
>course in which the entire GR was assigned?
>
>Sure:  my undergraduate senior English seminar on Pynchon, at UC
>Berkeley in 1981.  Taught by the redoubtable Thomas Schaub.  We read
>Pynchon's entire oeuvre (this was pre-"Vineland" and even pre-"Slow Learner"
>-- we read photocopies of the short stories).
>
>Best dam' class I ever took.  :-)
>

I likewise read GR in a UG honors seminar on Science and Literature taught
by Tom LeClaire at the University of Cincinnati. We were on a quarter
system and spent about six weeks on GR and also read DeLillo's White Noise,
Ursala K. LeGuin's Always Coming Home, Stanislaw Lem's Imaginary Magnitude
and Tom Robbin's Even Cowgirls Get the Blues.

It was one of the most intellectually stimulating classes I ever had as a
graduate or undergrad (in fact, most of my grad courses were a tremendous
disappointment by comparison).


Bill Konrad
konrad at sage.cc.purdue.edu