pynchon movies

[Dave Monroe]

"Subversive encyclopedic writing"?  But ...

--- Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de>
wrote:
> the author talks about Pynchon 's "subversive,
> enzyklopädische Schreibe". Can't translate this into
> English, so only fluent speakers of German may
> probably be able to understand why I find this
> expression utterly inappropriate.

... but why "utterly inappropriate"?  I'd be utterly
surprised to find that you weren't familiar with ...

Mendelson, Edward.  "Gravity's Encyclopedia."
   Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon.
   Ed. George Levine and David Leverenz.
   Boston: Little, Brown, 1976.  161-95.


Also in Harold Bloom, ed., Gravity's Rainbow: Modern
Critical Interpretations (New York: Chelsea House,
1986, pp. 29-52), and see, e.g. ...   

http://webware.princeton.edu/sites/english/Writing/palmer_abstract.html

Just curious, is all ...

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