SLSL Intro "Chicago School"

[Dave Monroe]

Well, while hosting, I generally try to stay out of
the discussion per se, though I obviously--hopefully,
at any rate ...--fuel it to some extent, but ... well,
am curious as to why Pynchon might mention anything in
particular in that "Introduction," esp. when it comes
not only to other (and, possibly, inter-) texts, but
to, say, ways of reading.  Much of that in the novels,
but interesting here that he mentions The Chicago
School alongside "what happened at Chicago" vis a vis
The Chicago Review and The Big Table, these (the
School, "what happened") ostensibly linked only by
locale.  Or not?  But note also not only the Chicago
School's emphasis on genre (sahred by Reilly, and,
esp., Hollander), but its "distrust" of "universal
philosophic systems."  For example.  Again, see ...

http://www.press.jhu.edu/books/hopkins_guide_to_literary_theory/chicago_critics.html

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0211&msg=72436&sort=date

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Keith:
> > Are there authors who speak of lit-crit as an
> >influence in their writing?
> 
> --- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com>:
> > Pynchon certainly does: "The conflict in those
> > days ...
> 
> ...which TRP doesn't mention at all, "critical
> theory" that is, which is interpolated here,
> parenthetically, into Pynchon's text...
> 
> I agree with Keith's later post:
> 
> >I see a reference to lit-crit, and vague general
> >comments. Nothing about its *influence on his
> >development as a writer* except in the most 
> >superficial way.

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