pynchon-l-digest V2 #9197

[Paul Mackin]

On 10/14/2012 12:05 PM, Don Antenen wrote:
> I study at Penn, and I know people doing a Gravity's Rainbow class 
> right now. So there's still some Pynchon in the Ivy League...

Glad to hear that.

P
>
> all the best,
> Don
>
> On Oct 12, 2012, at 11:32 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net 
> <mailto:mackin.paul at verizon.net>> wrote:
>
> > On 10/12/2012 11:03 AM, Matthew Cissell wrote:
> >> It would make an interesting study to compare Wood's reading of A 
> Sentime=
> ntal Education with Bourdieu's. Mr Wood is fair enough when addressing 
> the f=
> ormal aspects of fiction, its mechanics if you will, but does that 
> surprise a=
> nyone? He studied under Kermode, he's an Oxford chap. If we agree with 
> his c=
> ategories and judgements that is likely because, to some degree, we 
> share hi=
> s orthodoxy.
> >=20
> > Here's a question:  How does one account for the more conservative 
> literar=
> y values associated with Oxford as compared with, say, Sussex, where 
> Pynchon=
> studies seem to be going strong?  I can't remember ever hearing P's 
> name me=
> ntioned in connection with Oxbridge.  Same in America with the Ivy 
> League.  I=
> t can't be a class thing, because smart poor kids have be going 
> everywhere  s=
> ince WWII.  It's just that tradition dies hard I suppose.  Or what?
> >=20
> > P

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