No comment except Cowart is good (in earlier book)

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

I admired Cowart's allusion book back in the times when I was a
Pynchon scholar. (I still do.) Got the chance to meet him in fall
'92 when he was a Fulbright Professor at the Univ of Helsinki.

He told me that to mark the beginning of his Fulbright commission,
he was invited to give an inaugural lecture at the U.S. Embassy in
Helsinki. The embassy was still under the Bush Sr administration.

The lecture concerned the Domina Nocturna episode in GR. A Finnish
professor (Nabokov scholar) who was present told me that it was a
"memorable occasion".


Heikki

On Thu, 5 Jul 2012, Mark Kohut wrote:

> Reviewer is doing a thesis on TRP so has read all the criticism. Most readers of
> Pynchon have not.
>  
> Where are Cowart's oft ne'er-so-well-expressed insights manifested in the
> general reading culture of Pynchon's work?
>  
> That is what I want from the plist....insights for we Non-or-Amatuer Self-Read scholars.
>  
> Insights for life.....that new readers can sorta INHABIT.....
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc:
> Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2012 8:32 AM
> Subject: Re: No comment except Cowart is good (in earlier book)
>
> I will read it. but most of what cowart, if the review is accurate,
> says,  has been said. i guess that the p-industry, and inherebt vice
> and agains the day are the start of it from the pynchons, author and
> agent, has to now move to shore up the claims to p greatness, worthy
> of a nobel--historical authors all, and keep the cult followers happy
> as they move to market to the beach novel buyers.
>
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > http://www.berfrois.com/2012/07/pynchon-and-the-past-joanna-freer/
>