SLSL Intro "Chicago School"

[pynchonoid]

--- Dave Monroe <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com> wrote:
[...]
> 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
> 


Interesting, the movement from TRP's simple reference
in his text, on to another text, in order to make a
point about TRP's text, in this case whether or not
critical theory might be considered an important
influence on TRP's early stories.  I don't discount
that possibility at all, merely observe that a reader
has to dig below the surface by following references
in Pynchon's text, references that point to other
texts, in order to do that -- Hollander's method (not
his alone, of course, in the wide world of Pynchon
criticism), of which much has been said in this forum.


-Doug



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