Thoroughly postmodern Pynchon

[Doug Millison]

I recall having some fun with Lacanian interpretations of Fred Astaire &
Ginger Rogers movies once upon a time in gay Paris at a time when the talk
of simulacra was the rage, long before the film "Moulin Rouge" was a twinkle
in anybody's eye, but I found that a rather dry and evanescent joy; it made
sense as long as the conversation lasted, the way a lot of jargon-riddled
entertainments do, but for my money literary-critical theorizing just
doesn't satisfy the way the primary engagement with a work of art satisfies,
it's a derivative pleasure, for me at least. I've learned a great deal from
many articles and books I've read about Pynchon's work, but that reading is
always, for me at least, secondary to Pynchon's works. I enjoyed P's books
for many years before I read any Pynchon criticism at all. Having said that,
I still look forward to the next Pynchon Notes number, and seek to learn
from Pynchon scholars, and I do enjoy the insights that Dave Monroe, Thomas
E, and a few others bring to this forum.

Terrance:
[...] But here on Pynchon-L, be it
Structuralism, Formalism, Marxism, Psychoanalytic criticism
(Lacan, Freud, Jung), Feminism, Deconstructionism,
approaches to literature [...]