V.V. (17) current chapter

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> > Interesting that Brian McHale says that niether V. nor
> > CL49 is Postmodernist, both, he maintains, are Modernist.
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>Actually McHale says: "(...) , the Modernism - even if it is only
>mock-Modernism - of Pynchon's earlier fiction (...)"

Actually what Brain McHale says is that niether V. nor
CL49 is Postmodernist, both, he maintains, are Modernist.

This is what the man has written in his books. Now you
can agree with him or disagree with him, but don't appreciate being made to 
look like a fabricator on this.

Also, Chaucer is quite a postmodernist as McvHale defines
it, this is owed to his reflexive principle, his risistance
to closure. Something he shares not only with Thomas Pynchon,
but with a host of Jesuits and Jesuit educated men, James
Joyce, Descartes,  come to mind, this can of course be traced
through St. Thomas to Aristotle.
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