IV and cultural assimilation

[Dave Monroe]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:04 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dave Monroe has attempted to address the use of steeotypes in P's
> works, but it is not any easy thing to do in this forum. Maybe he will
> re-post some stuff on this topic?

Oh, hell, i did something right here fo once, and I'm not even sure
what it was now.  Help!

   "Chase stresses the importance of a shift in the attitude toward
characterization: from the novelistic emphasis on comprehensive
characterization to the romancer's interest in action and plot at the
expense of detailed character portrayal.  'Character itself,' he
writes, 'becomes ... somewhat abstract and ideal, so much so in some
romances that it seems merely a function of plot' (13) [ellipsis in
text].'  ..." (p. 25)

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