v. and orlando

[Dave Monroe]

Do not allow yourself to be barraged by abuse.  Not so sure if you'd want to
claim V. as an "appropriation" or whatever of Orlando--at any rate, I sure
wouldn't, but, then again, I don't have to, so ...--and I'd certainly shy away
from claims of anything being "essentially," "about" or otherwise, the "same"
thing, not in the least Orlando and V., Woolf's novel foregrounding far more
than Pynchon's issues of gender 'n' sexuality (though I've been much intrigued
of late by that issue of gender in, the gender of, V.), but that schematic of a
Protean figure perhaps figuring history, now that's an interesting an
applicable notion, I think.  Of course, it's not quite the assignment, now, is
it?  But it seems to me that the burden of proof is on you to demonstrate that
V. is specifically, I don't know, influenced by, intertextual with Orlando, so
... which I guess simply does NOT answer the question--anybody?

julian nasti wrote:

> hey everybody i'm back...
>
> in senior english our major assignment this semester entails having to
> analyse a particular text and any appropriation that may have been derived
> from it (bit of a tautology there), for example, _heart of darkness_ and
> _apocalypse now_, _hamlet_ and _rosencrantz and guildernstein_, the list is
> effecively interminable, especially when the boundaries between
> appropriation and intertexuality become blurred...
>
> does anyone think that pynchon's _V._ may be seen as an appropriation of
> virginia woolf's _orlando_? I've only just started reading _orlando_ but
> are'nt they both ostensibly about the same thing, a woman assuming various
> (cultural and sexual) manifestations and apparently materializing ex vacuo
> at various points in european history?
>
> i could be completely off the track, but i'm ready for the consequent
> inevitable barrage of abuse.
>
> julian.
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