Pynchon and Law Symposium

[Dave Monroe]

You know, I never would have known about that "Pynchon and the Law"
issue were it not for this list (thanks, Doug!).  As I recall, I esp.
appreciated Robert Hansen's "Law, History, and the Subversion of Postwar
America in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49," felt should have esp.
appreciated Kathleen Iudicello's "Intruding Worlds and the Epileptic
Word: Pynchon’s Dialogue with the Laws of Surrealism and New Physics"
(all my little fascinations), but ... but I still think I have a few
essays (the Mason and Dixon ones, largely) to go, so ...

But what was most appreciated, on this end, was the historicized,
politicized bent of the volume (David Thoreen's "The President’s
Emergency War Powers and the Erosion of Civil Liberties in Pynchon’s
Vineland" came esp. recommended), which is not only where and  how it
excelled, but where and how it differed most from yr average
Pynchoniana.  And not like anyone's gonna take my word for it, but ...

"Focus on Thomas Pynchon and the Law."  Oklahoma City University
    Law Review, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Summer 1999).

Contents @ http://www.okcu.edu/law/lrev24-2.htm

Order @ http://www.okcu.edu/law/lrissue.htm

They've also had (Wm.) Shakespeare and a Ralph Ellsion issues.  So who's
next?  Kafka seems obvious, but ...