Question for 2010 Lublin conferees (or anyone who can help)

[Paul Mackin]

On 9/18/2011 2:18 PM, Matthew Cissell wrote:
> Hello All,
>      
>      I have a question about some language that came up during the conference last year in Lublin. It's more about a phrase that came up.
>      I recall that on a few occasions conferees spoke of Pynchon as 'bringing something to our attention' or 'directing our attention' or using oblique references to arouse the reader's curiousity about something. At one point I heard the term "pedagogical Pynchon" used. Does anybody recall any of that? I don't believe I've come across it anywhere in the literature. That's to say that it doesn't seem to be an existing term in the discourse around studies involving Pynchon. (I leave it to others to discuss its utility or lack of.) I plan to refer to the event and the phrase in something I'm working on, but I wouldn't want to use a term without giving proper credit where needed.
>      
> Thanks
> ciao
> MCC
>   
> ps Hope you all had a fine summer.
>
Don't know what happened at Lublin but I did query the p-list achieves.  
Pedagogic gets 17 hits and didactic gets 176,  Didn't read but a couple 
of the actual messages.

Through the years here there have been many discussions surrounding the 
idea of 'what is Pynchon telling us?'  While most eschew this type of 
thinking in theory, a lot of times readers just can't seem to help it.  
The thirst for wisdom is just too powerful.

I don't know where I read it but someone was saying that recent Pynchon 
studies were emphasizing the "historical" as opposed to literary 
theory.  Maybe that was what was going on at Lublin.

Dunno the answer.

P