Chapter 45: Angels

[Dave Monroe]

If I haven't, I've wanted to ...

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> Guardian angels have been hotly debated over the
> centuries and I suspect that Pynchon, who has always
> included Angels in his tales, is also playing on the
> more recent interest in angels by the secular
> postmodern Americans (I believe Dave Monroe posted
> on this phenomenon.

... 'cept I don't have anything I'd want on hand at
hand.  But do see, as jbor mentioned ...

McHale, Brian.  Constructing Postmodernism.
   New York: Routledge, 1994.

Specifically, Ch. 8, "Women and Men and Angels: on
Joseph McElroy's Fiction," pp. 188-206, as well as ...

Bloom, Harold.  Omens of Millennium:
   The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection.
   New York: Riverhead, 1996.
   
http://prelectur.stanford.edu/lecturers/bloom/excerpts/omens.html#angels

Brown, Peter.  The Cult of the Saints:
   Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity.
   Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.

Edmundson, Mark.  Nightmare on Main Street:
   Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of Gothic.
   Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1997.

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/EDMNIG.html

http://www.semcoop.com/categories/cultstudies/article.asp?review=cedmundson.txt

McHale, Brian. "Gravity's Angels in America,
   or, Pynchon's Angelology Revisited."
   Pynchon Notes 42-43 (1998): 303-16.

McLaughlin, Robert L.  "Pynchon's Angels and
   Supernatural Systems in Gravity's Rainbow."
   Pynchon Notes 22-23 (1988): 25-33.

And maybe even ...

Lyotard, Jean-Francois.  The Inhuman:
   Reflections on Time.  Trans. Rachel Bowlby.
   Stanford: Stanford UP, 1991.

Poizat, Michel.  The Angel's Cry:
   Beyond the Pleasure Principle in Opera.
   Trans. Arthur Denner.  Ithaca, NY:
   Cornell UP, 1992.

http://www.u-picardie.fr/~LaboPPS/Site/Couverture/pzat-scanangel.htm

I know I would ...

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