Vineland: Nitpicking for a fight with wikipedia

[Dave Monroe]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Described as 'postmodern' in wikipedia listing.
>
> How, besides that it was published AFTER modernism, does "Vineland" get called that?

See, e.g., ...

Totalizing Postmodernism: Master-narratives in Pynchon's Vineland
By Bruce A. Sullivan

http://www.themodernword.com/Pynchon/papers_sullivan.html

On the other hand ...

Palmeri, Frank.
Other than Postmodern?--Foucault, Pynchon, Hybridity, Ethics
Postmodern Culture - Volume 12, Number 1, September 2001

http://www.muse.uq.edu.au/login?uri=/journals/pmc/v012/12.1palmeri.html

... but do note that for Jean-François Lyotard, at least, that "post"
isn't necessarily chronological.  St. Augustine was "ppsotmodern"
according to JFL ...