Dave Monroe
davidmmonroe at yahoo.com
Sat Jun 29 09:52:49 CDT 2002
I hear my name being called here ...
--- Robert Conrad Klein <rklein at fas.harvard.edu>
wrote:
> I'm doing my undergraduate thesis on M&D, and I'm
> just starting to cull some sources from the mass of
> criticism out there. What are some good places to
> start (besides anthologies of articles about M&D)?
Again, whatever our differences (of fact or opinion),
I cannot stress enough how much I've appreciated
jbor--Robert, Rob--keeping the flame (if not the flame
war) going here. He's really put his currency where
his keyboard is in this regard, and right from the get
go, viz. ...
PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE (with Reading Group Guide)
http://216.247.214.252/pynchon/index.html
TIM WARE'S WEB GUIDE
http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/index.html
CRITICAL WORKS
Clerc, Charles. _Mason & Dixon & Pynchon_. Lanham:
University Press of America, 2000.
Horvath, Brooke and Irving Malin (eds). _Pynchon and
'Mason & Dixon'_. Newark: University of Delaware
Press, 2000.
online essays by Peter Schmidt, Mark Siegel, Bill
Millard:
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/pynchon/mason.html
http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/siegel24.htm
http://www.columbia.edu/~wbm1/snovian.html
RECOMMENDED REVIEWS
Coraghessan Boyle, T. 'The Great Divide', _New York
Times Book Review_, May 18, 1997, p. 9:
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/970518.18boylet.html?searchpv=
book-site
LeClair, Tom. '_Mason & Dixon_'. Pynchon Node:
http://oz.uc.edu/~sola/Pynchreview.htm
Livingstone, David B. 'Mystery Train'. _Spike
Magazine_, September 1997:
http://www.spikemagazine.com/0997pync.htm
Mattessich, Stefan. Telluric Texts, Implicate Spaces',
1997:
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.997/review-5.997
McConnell, Frank. 'Good and Plenty'. _Commonweal_
August 15, 1997:
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9504067/diss/rezmcconnell.htm
McLemee, Scott. 'Weird Morning in America'. _Salon_.
April 25, 1997:
http://www.salon.com/april97/pynchon970425.html
Menand, Louis. 'Entropology'. _New York Review of
Books_ 44.10, June 12, 1997, pp. 22-25:
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9504067/diss/rezmenand.htm
Moody, Rick. 'Surveyors of the Enlightenment'.
_Atlantic Monthly_ 280.1, July 1997, pp. 106-110:
http://www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jul/pynchon.htm
Overbye, Dennis. 'Street Cred: Pynchon Toes the Line'.
_Wired_, August 1997:
http://www.wired.com/news/topstories/0,1287,6177,00.html
Siegel, Mark. 'Review of Thomas Pynchon, _Mason &
Dixon_.' _H-Net Reviews_, August 1997:
http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=14776872015199
Skea, Ann. 'Mason & Dixon'. _Eclectica_ 2.5, Aug./Sep.
1998:
http://www.eclectica.org/v2n5/skea_mason_dixon.html
Wall Hinds, Elizabeth Jane. 'Making the Rounds of
History'. _Threads_:
http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev8/r8hinds.htm
Weisenburger, Steven. 'Pynchon Surveys Troubled Land'.
_Wall Street Journal_, June 22, 1997:
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9504067/diss/rezweisenburger.htm
MORE REVIEWS
http://216.247.214.252/pynchon/md_reviews.htm
http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9504067/diss/6.htm
http://www.libyrinth.com/pynchon/pynchon_reviews.html
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=59252&sort=date
I will no doubt add what little is left soon as I get
a chance here, but ...
> What books of general theory should I check out? Is
> Frederic Jameson a good starting point?
> Thanks,
> RCK
Pretty much anything's a good starting point, point
being, to start, but, along Jameson's lines, at least,
see as well, e.g. ...
Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. Empire.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2000.
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HAREMI.html
Available online (!) @ ...
http://www.hup.harvard.edu/pdf/HAREMI.pdf
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0107&msg=57328&sort=date
Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity:
An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change.
Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1989.
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0103&msg=53535&sort=date
... off the top of my head. Again, will return to
this soon as I can. And yr very welcome indeed ...
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