AGTD & Genre as History

[alice wellintown]

so, been reading thru that collection _A Corrupted Pigrim's Guide_,
and it confirms what I have long held about the P, that is, that his
work is about work, and in writing about the history of labor, it
seems fitting that P work in the tradition, a positive parodic
postmodernism has its roots deep in the American tradition or parody
thus contextualized. So, Poe and Hawthorne, and of course, Melville.
And so, it is to the anatomy, the satirical, the humor, the respose,
that we must look to discover deeper meanings.

This takes some doing. An example of how it gets done on Melville.

http://english.columbia.edu/herman-melville