Derrida and Pynchon (Chambers review cont.)

[pynchonoid]

--- jbor:
> It's quite clear, then, that the ideas of Derrida,
> amongst other
> poststructuralists, do provide ample ground for
> intelligent discussion and
> interpretation of Pynchon's work. Not so Chomsky's
> Language Acquisition
> Device theory, behaviourist linguistics, or the
> Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, I'm
> afraid, which were dead in the water thirty, forty
> and fifty years ago
> respectively.


As Senator Kerry said to President Bush in their last
debate (paraphrasing):  Just because you can't do it
doesn't mean it can't be done.

Cognitive science, to which your interlocutor referred
I believe, is a very lively area of research and
discussion these day, with implications for many
disciplines, including literary criticism.

Thanks for sharing those chunks of those articles,
much appreciated.


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