Syllabus

[Dave Monroe]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Charles J. Shields
> <cjs1994 at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm thinking about going at Pynchon's novels in reverse: that is, reading
>> what he might have read, or at least becoming familiar with key concepts,
>> ideas, themes, and so on, before I pick up my first Pynchon work.
>
> http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/bio/influences.html

Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
Norman O. Brown, Life against Death
Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane
T.S. Eliot, Complete Poems
James Frazer, The Golden Bough
William Gaddis, The Recognitions
Robert Graves, The White Goddess
Michael Harrington, The Other America
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media
Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus
Richard Sasuly, I.G. Farben
A.E. Waite, The Pictorial Key to the Tarot
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World
Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings