Where's Pynchon on the Modern Library List?

[Jasper Fidget]

Seems like there's been a shift away from Pynchon in the last decade or 
so.  When I was in Lit-School around 15 years ago we all knew about TRP 
if only by reference (or by value).  Many of us had read him by the time 
we were seniors, and if the years had aligned were able to take TRP 
seminars, which happened every three or four years (the years had not 
aligned for me; I took Nabokov and Dickens seminars).  We didn't read 
any Native American literature, and this is the first I've heard of 
such.  Early American to us meant Puritan sermons and letters, followed 
by Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Melville.  We did read Joyce 
though, certainly Portrait and much of Dubliners, Ulysses if we sought 
it out.

gp wrote:
> From my experience I would say that there is too much time spent on
> breezing and re-breezing past the "classics" (which is variable
> depending upon the professor you get) and not enough on what has been
> going on in more modern times.  I would have never read Joyce during
> college if not for taking an extra class, for example, which sort of,
> er, surprises me.  I've come to the conclusion that undergrad classes
> are mainly meant to give you a smattering of Victorian / Greek / early
> American (i.e. Native American, Bernal Diaz, Cabaza de Vaca type work)
> and a pat on the butt to get either into grad school or middle
> management thanks to the math requirement.
>