Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon
Dave Monroe
flavordav at yahoo.com
Thu May 22 06:15:23 CDT 2003
Welcome aboard! I didn't know Spanos was still going.
Will look this up, thanks ...
--- Jonathan Hall <jmh69 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> BTW - William Spanos deals with Moby Dick and the
> Vietnam War and mentions GR often, and
> overuses 'prolepsis' throughout when perhaps he
> should have simply come out as a mystic and
> embraced 'prophecy'. He seems to want to draw it
> in to bolster his argument for a poststructuralist
> Pynchon - his rather bizarre claim being that the
> Vietnam War was an enabling condition of
> poststructuralist thinking. (William Spanos, The
> Errant Art of Moby Dick: The Canon, the Cold War,
> and the Struggle for American Studies)
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