Satire (was: Prosthetic Paradise)

[David Morris]

>From: "Derek C. Maus" Terrance F. Flaherty wrote:
>
> > As to Satire, throw it out,
>
>But why would you want to do this? It seems to me to be missing the entire
>point of the novel if satire is removed as *one* of its driving
>motivations.
>
> > Edward Mendelson says GR is an Encyclopedic Narrative, and I think his
> > approach one of the best around.
>
>There isn't really any prescription that says satire and encyclopedic
>narrative can't coexist, is there? From my reading of their criticism, I
>don't think either Mendelson or Kharpertian is making a claim for the
>*exclusive* definition of Pynchon's work as Encyclopedic or Mennipean
>satire, repsectively.
>
>If you want to be lit-crit pedantic about it, satire is a mode and
>encyclopedic narrative is a genre, or subgenre, neither of which in any
>way precludes (or demands) the use of the other.

So many boxes.  Categorize and Capture.  If nothing else, GR is a form which 
defiantly flaunts all these boxes, and I think it a disservice to force 
them.
DM

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