Syllabus

[Dave Monroe]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:59 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

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=9905&msg=37825
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0008&msg=48748
http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0008&msg=48933

Herbert Marcuse, "Political Preface 1966," Eros and Civilization

http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/55erosciv/ec0066pref.htm
http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/55erosciv/eccont.htm

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/eros-civilisation/preface.htm
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/eros-civilisation/index.htm