NP but Pyncheon

[Mark Kohut]

Also found my copy of Chase on Amaerican Romance and am taking notes.

A---and, here's a sliding slope worth commenting on, maybe---another list maybe?---got a very-on-sale copy of a book called The True Story of the Novel by one Margaret Anne Doody and she begins by saying ALL NOVELS are
also romances.........

just a bit of light-hearted academic wit for a cold Saturday night.

--- On Sat, 10/17/09, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: NP but Pyncheon
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Saturday, October 17, 2009, 8:25 PM
> A Law Journal might publish a special
> edition on Hawthorne & Pynchon &
> the Law.
> 
> The Laws that guide the Romance as Genre.
> 
> The non-aesthetic laws that Hawthore dilineates in the
> famous Preface.
> 
> Why that paragraph about the "lot" has been called a most
> **judicious** disclaimer and has become standard.
> 
> How the law deals with photgraphy: the mixing of the real
> and the reel
> or the fancy-pictures and the glossy pictures.
> 
> How fancy (i.e. to fancy and imagine) pictures (projections
> of reader
> response) in a historical/political reading expose the
> romance "to an
> inflexible and exceedingly dangerous species of
> criticism."
> 
> so on  ...
> 
> see American Quarterly 49.4 (1997) 746-779
> 
> Hawthorne's Romance and the Right to Privacy
> Milette Shamir
>