We dont really care about Kinbote ...

[Otto]

Only thing I've said about that was that a poem which is part of a
Nabokov-novel that starts with a waxwing is reason enough to group-read it
on the p-list. It will be part of the "work" and the fun to find out how
Nabokov's and Pynchon's literature are related to each other.

Haven't read any of these yet:

Vincent (re: Summing up):
For those with desires to explore the religious aspect(1): Noble, John
Partridge. Postmodernist Fiction: Theological Language and Moral Vision in
Borges, Nabokov, and Pynchon. University of Virginia, Ph.D. 1992.

And the philosophical aspect(1):
Strehle, Susan. "Actualism: Pynchon's Debt to Nabokov." Contemporary
Literature (Madison, WI), Spring 1983, 24:1, pp. 30-50.

Other critique as a benchmark(1):
Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth. "The V-Shaped Paradigm: Nabokov and Pynchon."
Cycnos, v. 12, no. 2, 1995, pp. 173-180. [Discusses The Real Life of
Sebastian Knight and V.]
Would you like some rabbit with that?(2)

Clark, Beverly Lyon: Reflections of Fantasy: The Mirror Worlds of Carroll,
Nabokov, and Pynchon. New York: Peter Lang, 1986

Then there is the fascinating Cervantes-Nabokov-Pynchon connection(3):
Holdsworth, Carole, "Cervantine Echoes in Early Pynchon", Cervantes:
Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America 8.1 (1988): 47-53

And the whole issue of Pale Fire criticism and its connection to
Pynchon(4):

Gibson, Jennifer Ann. Artificial Perplexities: The Paradigm of Gothic
Fiction and Its Postmodern Survival in the Wok of Nabokov, Pynchon, and
Beckett. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Ph.D., 1991.

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: slothenvypride
To: Terrance ; pynchon-l at waste.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 5:12 AM
Subject: re: We dont really care about Kinbote ...


Terrance IS the master of verbal irony, no?

Incidentally, and not to sound caustic or step on anyone's toes here, but
will anyone who is posting Pale Fire-related analysis and commentary be
equating any of it to Thomas Pynchon any time soon?  I ask merely because a
month ago, many P-listers claimed that the study of Nabokov would enhance
(y)our appreciation and understanding of Pynchon, and as I recall Mr. Maeder
made a concerted effort to stress the connections between the two authors as
he coordinated the group reading. Further, since N-listers who are now
subscribing to our list might find the connections illuminating, I thought
it might be a good idea to remember why many of you chose to discuss Pale
Fire.

Nevertheless, tomorrow's posts will, as always, most certainly be received
with joy and anticipation from

Your humble servant,

slothenvypride7