Pynchon's "muse" (was ...

[Dave Monroe]

And add to those ...

Heise, Ulrika K.  Chronoschisms: Time, Narrative,
   and Postmodernism.  New York: Cambridge UP, 1997.

... which has a chapter on Gravity's Rainbow, as well
as others on, as I recall, Julio Cotazar's Hopscotch,
Alain Robbe-Grillet's Topology of a Phantom City,
Samuel Beckett's How it Is, one or another of
Christine Brooke-Rose's novels (one I hadn't read,
which is nigh unto all of 'em), and a bit at the end
on Bruce Sterling's Schismatrix ...

--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> ... would love to throw my two cents worth in here
> as
> well, but am furiously trying to get my forthcoming
> hosting stint up and running   In the meantime, some
> recommended reading ...
> 
> Eagleton, Terry.  The Ideology of the Aesthetic.
>    Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1990.
> 
> Ermarth, Elizabeth Deeds.  A Sequel to History:
>    Postmodernism and the Crisis of Representational
>    Time.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1991.
> 
> Hutcheon, Linda.  A Poetics of Postmodernism:
>    History, Theory, Fiction.  New York:
>    Routledge, 1988.
> 
> Niethammer, Lutz.  Posthistoire: Has History Come
>    to an End?  Trans. Patrick Camiller.  New York:
>    Verso, 1992.
> 
> ... and thanks to those who responded to my plea, I
> believe I've located a possible source, but anybody
> who wants to send the article along "just in case,"
> your consideraton will go neither unappreciated nor,
> I
> hope, unrewarded ...
> 
> 
> --- Otto Sell <o.sell at telda.net> wrote:
> > Nice topic indeed - goes to the core of the pomo
> > debate (and therefor to the
> > heart of GR too): The End of History as
> exemplified
> > by the deadly binary
> > opposition between the US and the USSR, developed
> > out of the German
> > Rocket-programme harvested by both sides.
> 
> > And if Robert looks for the origin of the word
> > "esthetic" (and thus forcing
> > us to do a little additional reading on esthetic
> and
> > the anaesthetic) he's
> > exactly doing what Terrance urges, tossing "the
> > jargon and semantics and
> > language games out in the interest of
> communication
> > so that achievements
> > made possible by one framework or formulation may
> be
> > incorporated in
> > another."
> 
> 
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> 
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