Pynchon and fascism

[joeallonby]

on 5/29/03 5:12 PM, Terrance at lycidas2 at earthlink.net wrote:

> 
> 
> 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.

You misspelled faggot.