MA Essay: Readers?

[Jeff Lawshe]

I am currently in the process of completing the first draft of my MA Essay.  I am dealing with _V._, "The Secret Integration", and _Mason & Dixon_ via the dominant historical narrative/counter-narrative angle.  I am particularly interested in the way in which Pynchon's nods to alterity tend to be co-opted by a dominant narrative (or by aspects of the oppressive forces against which such ruptures agitate), and I am using some Derrida, some Volosinov [Bahktin], Deleuze and Guattari, Foucault, and Linda Hutcheon.

I'm a starving graduate student, so I can't offer you anything beyond the good feelings you can muster from disinterested philantropy, intellectual discourse, or my gratitude.  If anyone feels inclined to provide comments on a 30-page (double-spaced) essay, I would be both surprised and pleased.  I can forward my proposal immediately, and the completed draft by next Wednesday (July 11th).

Thanks in advance to those who reply.  However, I understand completely if this interests no one for whatever reason (academic writing destroys the artistic integrity of Pynchon's work, Pynchon despises academics in general and deconstructionists in particular, graduate students who try to be theoretical are embarassingly bombastic, 30 pages is a friggin' long paper, you don't want to do my homework, etc.)

Cheers,

Jeff Lawshe
jlawshe at u.washington.edu