Cowart & how P avoids the postmodern problem with history (Fredric Jameson)

[Mark Kohut]

just looked it up by "looking inside"....yes to Cowart, yes and I may have
been shaped by his earlier book which I did speed-read and which
is repeated in this new one said that repititious reviewer and you all said that again...
 
Postmodernly, and McLuhan must be a key deep influence here, ---our
mediated world--movies, our minds, our memes, etc.---are the 
new reality that was gossip and balls in Austen, the mill, the floss and the
Poor Law in Geo Eliot, balls and feeling in Tolstoy...........

From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 2:10 PM
Subject: Cowart & how P avoids the postmodern problem with history (Fredric Jameson)

speaking of misreadings, I must admit that I ca not follow Cowart here
on page 23 where he sets out to define or describe  how P devised a
genre that somehow fits into our postmodern realism. the allusion to
johnson and kicking a stone, as I read it, is Cowart;s own bit of
sophistry.  a rather critical point is muddled by the allusion.
anyone?
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