Studying the Pynchon/apocalyptic fiction junction

[Daniel Cape]

Campbel,

Yes, there is going to have to be a lot of narrowing and winnowing done.
I've recently gained access to University resources, so I can do a
dissertation search etc.
Another p-lister provided an interesting clue as to the intersection of
revelation & film in our man Pynchon. This is exciting.
Any more ideas much appreciated.

I'll let you all know what I turn up ovr the next few weeks.

Regards,

Dan


2009/7/21 Campbel Morgan <campbelmorgan at gmail.com>

> I suggest you narrow your subject, Millennialism & Apocalypticism, to
> a topic and ten focus it. If you want to include Pynchon is the paper,
> I suggest you stick to GR. Only problem may be that your paper has
> been written by several before you.
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Daniel Cape<daniel.cape at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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