Gnostics vs Orphic Naturalism in Vineland

[Dave Monroe]

Again, this might be of interest ...

Dickson, David.  The Utterance of America: Emersonian 
     Newness in Dos Passos' U.S.A. and Pynchon's
   Vineland.  Gothenburg Studies in English 71 (1998).

I haven't much read it yet, but it seems to take a
Bakhtinian approach of some sort, and makes some
reference to Emerson, that "transparent eyeball" thing
or whatever, see here as I recall ...

Porter, Carolyn.  Seeing and Being: The Plight of the
   Participant Observer in Emerson, James, Adams, and
   Faulkner.  Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 1985.

Will perhaps post from what seems to have been
Dickson's dissertation at the U of Goteborg (Sweden)
if/when I get a chance, but I've not had much downtime
of late, and I'm busy preparing for Ch. 14.  

I do want to mention that jbor made some interesting
comments about possible Ayn Rand intertexts here, I'd
also throw in John Dos Passos' U.S.A. Trilogy (those 
"newsreels" et al.) in re: that tickertaping of
catastrophes in V. I believe Doug brought up.

And, John Bailey, anyone, everyone, have y'all seen
L'Humanite as well?  Reminds me, Andrei Tarkovsky this
weekend (Solaris, Stalker, plus that Chris Marker [La
Jetee] documentary).  Talk about yr leisurely pacing. 
Okay, back to catching up here ...


--- Jane <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> James, Emerson, an American tradition, Pynchon is
> the true
> inheritor of the "Broken" Estate of Herman Melville
> & Co. 

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