Fewer spelling mistakes version---Re: Circularity of GR, Mendelson, Ulysses

[Fakhereddine Berrada]

Eric, your queries are very much to the point. At the level of structure, 
P revists the modernist text with a vengence and does produce what might 
be called the quinessential post-modern text (there's F.Wake, too, of 
course). At the level of content or theme (and the two are hard to 
dissociate in P's work) a comparsion can be made between Ulysses and GR. 
I am reading a book that a great Pynchonite recommended, by Edna Duffy 
entitled "The Post-colonial Ulysses". I know not many people would agree 
with my reading of Pynchon, but I see him as representative of a 
post-colonial consciousness which shapes his politics of writing. 
Ulysses' ambivalence as a postcolonial text is pushed to its limits in GR 
and V. Let me know what you think. Fakhereddine.

> > But how much of his comparative structure between GR and > Ulysses do
we really agree with?  And does it ignore some of > Pynchon's own
circularity? Surely CL49, and also GR, have > aspects of circularity built
into their structure.  > > Comments? > Eric Alan Weinstein > Centre For
English Studies > University Of London > E.A.Weinstein at qmw.ac.uk
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