AGTD & Genre as History

[Bled Welder]

Oh I've said it many times.  Truth is a higher form of humor.


On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 1:56 PM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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
>
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