Most criticism post-Hemingway

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Pynchon certainly used to be the most written about post-WWII
U.S. writer. I recall Berube confirming it too.

But arguably Toni Morrison has taken the lead. I just checked
a quite reliable indicator, the MLA database: the subject
"Morrison, Toni" gives 1748 hits, "Pynchon, Thomas" 1323.
Pynchon was "ahead" when I last made the comparison. Must've
been around 1998.

The Ohiolink Library Catalog - that contains the books of
all Ohioan universities, incl. the Miami U of great John
Krafft - tells as much: many more Morrison subject entries.
http://olc1.ohiolink.edu/


Heikki

On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Dustin Iler wrote:

>
> You may want to check, if you haven't yet, Michael Berube's book _Marginal Forces, Cultural Centers: Tolson, Pynchon, and the Politics of the Canon_.
>
> > Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:24:25 -0800
> > From: glenn_scheper at earthlink.net
> > To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> > Subject: Re: Most criticism post-Hemingway
> >
> > Google knows everything...
> > googling this:
> >
> >    Pynchon "most written about" author after World War II
> >
> > Shows first:
> >
> > THE APPRENTICESHIP OF THOMAS PYNCHON - New York TimesIt is the most solidly specified of Mr. Pynchon's works before ''Gravity's ... academy and must be now among the most written about of contemporary authors. ...
> > query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE5DC1638F936A25757C0A962948260&se... - 44k - Cached - Similar pages
> >
> > i.e., at
> >
> > http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE5DC1638F936A25757C0A962948260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=4
> >
> > Yours truly,
> > Glenn Scheper
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> >
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