ATDATD Prep

[Ya Sam]

That's a very specific book, but just for the sake of its brilliance I would 
recommend 'Rabelais and his World' by Mikhail Bakhtin.
Eco's new volume of essays called 'On Literature' is also quite good.
The earliest book by Brian McHale called 'Postmodernist Literature' is a 
truly encyclopedic endevour, I learned about many interesting authors 
through that book.



>From: Keith McMullen <keithsz at mac.com>
>To: Pynchon Index Cacorum <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: ATDATD Prep
>Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 13:23:46 -0800
>
>I didn't even take much Lit. in college so am uneducated about  literary 
>criticism. I'm currently reading Eco's _The Limits of  Interpretation_ 
>which I find much more entertaining than his novels.  Here he strikes a 
>nice balance between the reality of the text and  the imagination of the 
>reader. Are there other sources that are along  those lines? Ones that 
>would be comprehensible to a laygeezer? Ones  that are entertaining as well 
>as informative?

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