The Role Of Irony In The Art And Life Of T.S. Monk And Henry Adams

[alice wellintown]

quite a creative thesis here; one can see how the author puts two
figures, who at first glance, seem to have little or nothing to do
with one another, into a fascinating read of both. Reading Adams and
Pynchon in the same way, foucused on irony or some other technique,
one needn't spin such beautiful webs, for the spider Adams, caught
Pynchon in his web. In AGTD Pynchon returns to the web, finds Adams
still there, at the exposition. Another much overlooked connection is
assassination. Whiloe many a critic discusses Adams's apparent
non-reaction or subdued reaction to Lincoln's assassination, or argues
against such obvious readings, few, as far as I know, discuss the
theme of assassination, not of Lincoln only, or of US presidents, but
assassination itself. Interesting connection there. Another is the
automobile, an important machine in Adams, he wites what I consider
his most beautiful prose about the automobile and the Virgin.
Fitzgerald, as I noted, read Adams, and his Myrtle or Virgin is run
down by Adams's car in TGG.

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Richard Fiero <rfiero at gmail.com> wrote:
> alice wellintown wrote:
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>> The Role Of Irony In The Art And Life Of T.S. Monk And Henry Adams
>> http://howardm.net/tsmonk/adams.php
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> Thanks.
>