NIPPAF

[Vincent A. Maeder]

I will get a hold of those Williams College professors, Stephen Fix and
John Limon to see if they would send a copy of their syllabus.  This
would be helpful in placing an agenda upon the host list to guide the
discussion toward Nabokov's Influences on Pynchon through Pale Fire.

V.

>>ENG361 Nabokov and Pynchon(8). 
"After a brief comparative study of their short stories, the course will
focus on selected novels by each author. Texts include: Pnin, Lolita,
and Pale Fire by Nabokov; and, by Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, and
Gravity's Rainbow (to which a substantial portion of the latter part of
the course will be devoted)" as taught by Professor Stephen Fix(9).

And how about "the uses of experiments in narration for discriminating
private and public craziness" as taught by Professor John Limon(10) in
ENGL 357(11) Contemporary American Fiction comparing Pale Fire and The
Crying of Lot 49, among others.  (Also at Williams College, though I
have no connection to this place). 

V.

(8)
http://www.williams.edu/admin-depts/registrar/catalog/depts/engl/engl361
.html

(9) http://www.williams.edu/English/faculty/FIX.HTM

(10) http://www.williams.edu/English/faculty/LIMON.HTM

(11)
http://www.williams.edu/admin-depts/registrar/catalog/depts/engl/engl357
.html<<