Vineland: Nitpicking for a fight with wikipedia

[Mark Kohut]

Not that anybody but me cares, but such uses of 'postmodern' are as loose
as bad dentures....no bite........

Vineland ain't, I shout....


--- On Mon, 12/1/08, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Vineland: Nitpicking for a fight with wikipedia
> To: markekohut at yahoo.com
> Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Date: Monday, December 1, 2008, 10:00 AM
> 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 ...