About Webb T. & violence [my hobbyhorse] in AtD (which contains everything)

[Mark Kohut]

Josephine Hendin wrote nicely about Pynchon in her fine book on American writers (of 50s-70s) "Vulnerable People.". Some p-lister has sent around
a piece on P, especially GR,by her from a major mag---which i think became a chapter in this book. 

"Heartbreakers" is a 2004 book by Ms. Hendin. Subtitle is: Women & Violence in Contemporary Culture and Literature. 

[The major authors' book cited in what I will quote below was published in 1997, fyi] 

"The most innovative recent approach in violence studies offers the ambitious conceptualization of violence as "a 'web' because the causes of violence, from interpersonal to global, are connected, as are the consequences" [Turpin and Kurtz] In doing so, web theorists affirm that "human rights violations in the private and public spheres are interrelated" and can explain issues of social oppression that affect people of different nations, races, religious groups, or classes and unify all areas of violence studies on a worldwide level." [Eisler]

Believers are acutally called 'web theorists'!!!