Fwd: More pastiche?

[Joe Allonby]

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From: Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com>
Date: May 23, 2005 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: More pastiche?
To: Tully Rector <tully_rector at hotmail.com>


Was "The Wind Done Gone" written in 19th Century African-American dialect?

On 5/23/05, Tully Rector <tully_rector at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> recent: David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas" is built of several difft historical
> & generic styles; Andrew Miller's "Ingenious Pain" (18th ce)---both are
> extremely engaging & good. IYI: Russell Hoban's "Ridley Walker" invents a
> strange futurist/medeival idiom to fit its postapocalyptic world:
> interesting in the way mutations in period styles are interesting
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> >From: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>
> >To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >Subject: More pastiche?
> >Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 20:02:38 +0300
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> >Recently I've become rather interested in the way contemporary
> >writers imitate the style and the language characteristic of the
> >writing during the previous centuries. The most facsinating
> >instances of pastiche to my knowledge are The Sot-Weed Factor,
> >Hawksmoor, and, of course, Mason & Dixon. But there should be more.
> >Could anyone tell me about other successful attempts at recreating
> >the language of a certain epoch, without necessarily confining
> >oneself to English language literature?
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