"Bouncy Little Tunes"
Mark Wright AIA
mwaia at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 8 09:54:50 CDT 2004
Howdy
!Viva! Complexity and Contradiction in architecture, literature and
life!
And let's hear it for bouncy little tunes. :)
Mark
--- monroe at mpm.edu wrote:
> From Nadine Attewell, "'Bouncy Little Tunes': Nostalgia,
> Sentimentality, and
> Narrative in Gravity's Rainbow," Contemporary Literature, Vol. 45,
> No. 1
> (Spring 2004), pp. 22-48 ...
>
" Gravity's Rainbow urges that rather than persist in
> aligning
> various terms ('nostalgia,' 'irony') with one or the other side of an
> endless string of binaries (affirmation/critique,
> subversion/collaboration)
> that may be reduced, ultimately, to the banality of good/bad, we try
> to work
> through the muddle the novel names 'double aagency,' to recognize
> affirmation's critiques and critique's affirmations.
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