V2nd - chapter 11 - more examples - Bastardized?

[alice wellintown]

I also recommend, and have so here in the past, _The Art of the
Mystery Story_ Edited by Howard Haycraft. The first essay is a defense
of the detective story, Chesterton.

I still hold that Stencil is no detective. The detective story is
always an element, usually a parodic one, in a Pynchon novel, but
Stencil is not a detective and his quest, though it has much to do
with crimes against the conception of natural men, is adventure not
education.



On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 6:19 PM, alice wellintown
<alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a wonderful discussion of these issues in Martin Priestman's
> (editor) Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction; it includes a
> discussion of Pynchon, postmodern and modern, detective and
> anti-detective, McHale, Oedipus....and you may read it online.
>