V. & Dulcinea

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

http://www.ipfw.indiana.edu/cm1/jehle/web/cervante/csa/artics99/holdswor.htm


Critics often name Pynchon's influences, but rarely dig into
a work and do a little comparative literature, or when they
do, they will dig into a source book, like the white goddess
or Norman O. Brown or Henry Adams or they will, as McHale
does in his Constructing Postmodernism, dig into techniques
or major narrative subjects or try to show how postmodern
and modern are different, but I would love to read an essay,
maybe a good old compare and contrast the first two chapters
of M&D and The Sot-Weed Factor essay or compare and contrast
Slothrop and Tom Jones or something an undergraduate might
be asked to write in a senior seminar course. Anyways, here
is an essay I found on the internet. 

"This place is too cold for hell."   Macbeth