Studying the Pynchon/apocalyptic fiction junction

[Daniel Cape]

Thanks very much for your advice, Page. Please do let me know if you
hear from any collegial colleagues re: Pynchon study etc.
I hope this reply makes its way to the right thread and all... I'm not
sure how to reply sos that it makes its ways into the cowreck place.

I thought that Mason & Dixon, being related to the founding of modern
America, might be worth a scan for any millennial-type blips. Slow
Learner was a great gloss to the novels I've read so far, and I must
get to that _1984_ Intro. Will check out that website and that
scholarly boke too. AtD is winging its way to me as we speak... and
I'm chewing through Vineland (a lot easier to digest than others, I
must say) while red-rimmed mine eyes absorb films from Nosferatu to
gore-soaked body horror. Delicious.

p-list Pynchon academics, you know who you are (doncha??) -- can you
offer me any advice on study in the field of apocalyptic fiction &
Pynchonalia?

Regards,

:D a n


2009/7/20 Page <page at quesnelbc.com>:
> Welcome to the list. I cannot provide useful answers to your questions (I
> live in the bush in Canada and the full digital age hasn't made it to my
> world), but I can throw a couple things your way. Don't know if you have
> been lurking long enough to have picked some of the shorthand on the list,
> TRP is, of course, OBA -- which, in turn, is Our Beloved Author
>
> The most important reading I can recommend is Against the Day (AtD) and the
> introduction to Slow Learner. Mason & Dixon is not on your list. I am
> inclined to think that is the easiest to skip  --  but there are people are
> here who would horse whip me for that sentiment. An edition of "1984" was
> published in the last year or so, and TRP wrote the Introduction.You may
> know that, so please forgive that and any redundancies. An excellent book
> about TRP is "The Gnostic Pynchon." The website, "the modern word.com" is a
> treasure trove, including unpublished writings of Pynchon and works about
> him.
>
> I will contact some people I know from university days and try to dig up
> some information about TRP's work
>
> As for the list, jump in any time. New voices are always good.
>
> Page
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Cape" <daniel.cape at gmail.com>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 4:03 PM
> Subject: Studying the Pynchon/apocalyptic fiction junction
>
>
>> Hello liszters,
>>
>> I've recently discovered this frankly amazing resource, and have been
>> lurking about a bit listening in. I thought it time to say g'day and
>> pose a question.
>>
>> I've been thinking about undertaking postgraduate study at Master's
>> thesis level for some time now. I would like to do it in the arena of
>> apocalyptic fiction, and have been toying with authors and ideas (and,
>> of course, crises of self-doubt). Pynchon's works would be a fruitful
>> source to study, I think, but of course the critical industry
>> surrounding him is huge, and I suspect a lot's been done on this (for
>> starters, I've read the chapter on Pynchon in Joseph Dewey's monograph
>> _In A Dark Time_). What do you think?
>>
>> Furthermore, I've recently picked up some film papers for phun (incl.
>> a brilliant genre study of horror!), and have begun reading Vineland
>> -- looking at all those movie refs. the possibility of an
>> interdisciplinary study on film and lit looking at Pynchon excites,
>> but again i suspect a LOT has been written on this. What do you think?
>>
>> I'd quite like to travel someplace to study (I'm in New Zealand), and
>> would also like to ask if you knew of any taught Master's programmes
>> that focus on utopian/dystopian/apocalytpic fiction, especially in
>> Europe, but also in North America, and any recommendations for centres
>> of Pynchon studies.
>>
>> Thanks, your help is mucho appreciated,
>>
>> :D a n
>>
>> PS: My experience of Pynchon so far; CoL49, GR, V., Slow Learner, and,
>> partially, Vineland. I'm like Pac Man nam nam nam.
>>
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