IVIV Hope Harlingen: ( spoilers)

[Tore Rye Andersen]

alice:
 
> In Fables of Subversion, Steven Weisenburger discusses Heller,
> Pynchon, Coover, John Hawkes and William Gaddis—as authors of
> “degenerative satire,” which is a postmodern satire; its comedy and
> humor are beyond the kind of corrective laughter typical of
> traditional literary satire and “subvert hierarchies of values and
> reflect suspiciously on all ways of making meaning, including its
> own.”
 
Much as I admire his GR Companion, I really don't find Fables of 
Subversion very convincing. Probably what happens when you try to
lump someone like Pynchon together with misanthropes like Gaddis
and Hawkes.
 
Considering you're a lady, it surprises me that you don't quote
your fellow sisters more often. Try reading Molly Hite, Kathryn
Hume and Katherine Hayles - some of Pynchon's best critics, IMHO,
who all have a good eye for the tenderness and sentimental streak
which tempers Pynchon's cynicism. So have Tony Tanner, Thomas Schaub
and Edward Mendelson, for that matter - really any Pynchon critic 
worth his or her salt.
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