Wilde: Love and Death in Vineland USA

[jbor at bigpond.com]

And it's pp. 166-180. My typo, sorry.

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> Should have mentioned that a pdf of the essay is available.
>
>> 'Love and Death in and around Vineland, U.S.A.' by Wilde, Alan
>> _boundary 2_ 18.2,  Summer 1991, pp. 166-170 	[s/b 166-180]
>> 	
>> A pretty interesting discussion of _Vineland_ in the context of 
>> Pynchon's other work. Wilde argues that it is the least effective of 
>> Pynchon's novels -- correctly imo. He accurately identifies the 
>> novel's attitude towards the '60s as ambivalent at best, and outlines 
>> the various ways in which the supposedly "happy" ending is undercut 
>> by Pynchon.
>>
>> Excerpt:
>> "[...] Frenesi and Brock, devotees respectively of the camera and the 
>> gun, are the obverse and the reverse of the same coin. [...] In the 
>> novel's moral economy, Frenesi comes across as no better than Brock 
>> -- only, unfortunately for her, as less calculating and powerful." 
>> (p. 169)
>>
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