Thoreen: Vineland and 'Rip van Winkle'

[Dave Monroe]

See ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0307&msg=83392

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0307&msg=83394

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0307&msg=83395

And cf., e.g., ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0307&msg=83208

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0308&msg=84430

And from Leslie A. Fiedler, Love and Death in the
American Novel, rev ed. (New York: Stein and Day, 1966
[1960]), Ch. 1, "The Novel and America," pp. 23-38 ...

   "The figure of Rip Van Winkle presides over the
birth of the American imagination ....  Ever since,
the typical male protagonist of our fiction has been a
man on the run ...--anywhere to avoid 'civilization,'
which is to say, the confrontation of a man and woman
which leads to the fall to sex, marriage, and
responsibility.
   "Rip's world is not only asexual, however, it is
terrible: a world of fear and loneliness, a haunted
world; and the American novel is pre-eminently a novel
of terror...." (pp. 25-6)

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0211&msg=72936

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Well worth reading:
> 
> 'Thomas Pynchon's political parable: Parallels
> between _Vineland_ and "Rip Van Winkle"' by David
> Thoreen. _ANQ_ 14.3 Lexington: Summer 2001, pp.
> 45-50.


		
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