IV Blithedale Romance (Chase & Tanner)

[Dave Monroe]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:11 PM, alice
wellintown<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's a very deeeeeeep sea this Romance notion. It takes a deep diver
> like Monroe to even attempt it. I see him now, his eyes bloodshot, not
> from doper's reflections, but from diving with great Leviathan.

... not to mention barroom smoke and ambient allergens.  But I'm
finding Chase--and, esp., Madsen's summary/explication/application of
his book--to be ep. useful in addressing Pynchon's idiosyncratic use
of characters.  It really does help to situate a text in a context, so
long as you remain open to the fact that there's always any number of
possible contexts (American romance, Menippean satire, encyclopedic
fiction, postmodern novel, Vietnam era fiction, u.s.w., et
soforthiam).  Againm though, here's Madsen cutting to the Chase ...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0907&msg=137558