The Poetics of Transgression: Schizophrenia, Paranoia,

[Daniel Harper]

Just read this message. Could be a reasonable thing, if one is considering
that even with a tome as massive as GR, it's really only a thousand pages or
so. If one is reasonably plugged-in to the literary community, reading a
fifty twenty-page papers really isn't that hard to do, especially with an
older work or a work which is being rapidly discussed.

I'd imagine you could fill small libraries with nothing but Shakespeare
scholarship, for instance. Yet the complete works fit into one
reasonably-sized volume....

--Daniel

On 5/18/07, Glenn Scheper <glenn_scheper at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > This was something I found very odd at the time of the London Pynchon
> > week (some years ago now).  My first interface with serious literature
> > students, and I was left with the impression that most read more
> > criticism than literature.
>
> > Still don't really understand why..
>
> I feel that in me. I surf for glosses all day, rarely read a work,
> only when I realize a work is relevant to building my world-view.
>
> I think it also follows the TECHNOS versus SOPHOS difference.
>
> Yours truly,
> Glenn Scheper
> http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_scheper/
> glenn_scheper + at + earthlink.net
> Copyleft(!) Forward freely.
>
>
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