Menippean Satire?

[Doug Millison]

At 11:56 AM -0400 8/19/99, MalignD at aol.com wrote:
>I would die some mesurable degree happier were I spared hearing again the
>term "Menippean Satire."

Re Menippean Satire, Charles Hollander gets my vote as the scholar who does
the best job of discussing Menippean Satire in the context of TRP's
writing, in his fine, perceptive articles "Pynchon's Politics: The Presence
of an Absence" (_Pynchon Notes_ 26-27, spring-fall 1990,  and "Pynchon's
Inferno" (_Cornell alumni news_, November 1978) -- they are well worth
reading if you're interested in tracing out the political allusions in
TRP's fictions.  His article, "Pynchon, JFK and the CIA:  Magic Eye Views
of _The Crying of Lot 49_" to be published in the next issue of _Pynchon
Notes_ is worth the price of admission, too.


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