Pynchon lit.

[Keith Davis]

Well, I just managed to buy Cowart's first book on P used on Amazinga, and
was able to download the Hagg article, also. Now all I need is time!

Cheers

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I did read the chapter on Pynchon in Tanner's "The American Mystery", and
> thought it was very good. I agreed with his chapter on DeLillo's
> "Underground", also. Didn't realize he had a book about Mr. P. I will look
> up Hagg.
>
> Thanks.
>
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> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Tanner got him early and largely right, imho....seeds of this book in
>> reviews and early articles on TRP
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>>   *From:* Scott Macleod <swmacleod at gmail.com>
>> *To:* Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
>> *Cc:* "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> *Sent:* Saturday, July 21, 2012 11:54 AM
>> *Subject:* Re: Pynchon lit.
>>
>>  Tony Tanner, Thomas Pynchon (London & New York: Methuen, 1982).
>>
>> Despite only having the opportunity to examine half of P's legendary
>> oeuvre - Tanner still offers the most readable and insightful critical
>> study in my opinion.
>>
>> S
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>> Sent from my iPad
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>> On 22/07/2012, at 1:14 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
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>>   On 7/21/2012 10:15 AM, Keith Davis wrote:
>>
>> Mr. Cowart's books look interesting. Is that a good place to start as far
>> as studies of Mr. P's
>> work? Any other suggestions? (Excuse me while I duck behind this
>> barricade....!!)
>>
>>
>> For sources and general orientation to GR, especially pop culture
>> references, there is Weisenburger's GR Companion. But otherwise, if I were
>> to study P's work (which I haven't  done in other than the most happazard
>> and fragmentary way),  I'd want to approach him from the narratology angle.
>> The way he tells the story. His style, e.g., the way he uses voices and
>> points of view, is what makes  Pynchon Pynchon. For me anyway.  I don't
>> know who's the best author, but if you want to read something free on the
>> Internet, you might google samuli hagg. His study is academic, but he
>> writes well, a Finn who sounds like a native English speaker. Maybe he is
>> one.
>>
>> P
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>> kd
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