Pynchon and fascism

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Paul Nightingale wrote:
> 
> Anyway, thanks for your lengthy response, and I hope I'm making sense
> here.

Makes sense to me. 

All these terms can get us tied up in knots. It doesn't help that terms
like narrative and fiction have always been soft and arbitrary choices
and now they've been recycled and reconstructed,  deconstructed,
structuralized and post-structuralized. Can't you just hear an
hysterical Northrop Frye screaming in a high pitched fascist-fagot's
voice at Foucault, 

"I want you to go sit on that bench over that that says, "Genre!" 
NOW! 

See The Rhetoric Of Non-Literary Prose, Fourth Essay: Rhetorical
Criticism, pp326-337

Yes, the Orwell example.