GRGR(6) - Ep. 15 Reader Dissonance.

[Derek C. Maus]

On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, rj wrote:

> But I first ran across the term applied to Pynchon's fiction in one or
> more of the standard critical texts even earlier than this (1983-4ish).

Not the first, but the best reference source in re: Menippean Satire and
Pynchon is Theodore Kharpertian's _A Hand to Turn the Time:  The Menippean
Satires of Thomas Pynchon_ (London: Associated University Presses, 1990). 

Opening fifty pages deal with the slippery nature of the term in a
historical and critical context. Damn fine book.

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