V's Genre

[Terence]

I would be interested in a discussion of satire in V. that
includes Weisenburger's  Fables of Subversion.   Chapter
Five, "Encyclopedic Satires" opens with a reply to Mendelson
et al. Also, while I'm thinking of it, Mendelson's
Collection of Critical Essays, 1978, the one that has Pig
Bodine pulling the drunk "what's his  name" up to the fire
escape by the pants, has an essay by Michael Seidel, "The
Satiric Plots of Gravity's Rainbow." 

 I don't insist on Genre, really. However, I think it is
simply too helpful to ignore. It has been for me anyway. But
I know that we have an eclectic bunch here, and some will
disapprove, and they will be right to, if I start putting
Aristotelian boxes in my posts and forcing Pynchon's novels
into them. I would not do this, in fact I don't think anyone
can, but there are huge benefits to the type of approach I
have followed from the books of Weisenburger, Mendelson,
Kharpertian, and so on. 

I think if we put The Waste Land on the table we will run
into trouble. It's a big poem as you well know and we could
get way away from V.
Anyway, I think we agree that satire is an element of the
poem, that the inanimate/animate interpenetration is
present. 

HoD may not be an ideal text for this discussion either. The
Secret Agent might be better, but I would prefer to stick to
Pynchon here. 

Nänny, Max. "The Waste Land: A Menippean Satire?" English
Studies 66.6
(1985): 526-535. 

However, I thank you for providing some terms and
definitions for framing and focusing the discussion here.