Syllabus

[Dave Monroe]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:13 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

Henry James, The Princess Cassamasima

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