Mendelson's View of P's 2ble Vision

[Markekohut]

Parody, YES! ...an "allusive polemical double"......f'in BRILLIANT phrase, IMHO, worthy of
Mendelson. 

Yeah, many readers don't want, it seems. 

> I suspect that readers don't want the most important double that P has to offer in BE: parody, an allusive polemical double. 
> 
> On Sunday, October 6, 2013, Markekohut wrote:
>> Stereoscopic...double vision.....Iceland Spar. 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> On Oct 6, 2013, at 9:00 AM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> That Flatiron Vision, what in art class and in math and physics class we were taught is the two point perspective, and then vanishing point, and then, of course, Infinity & Entropy, is, in literature an Encyclopedic Vision, not merely in the sense that it is comprehensive, exhaustive if you prefer, but in the sense that the narrative, while steroscopic in depth, winks on either side of the V, like Kilroy, the band-pass-filter, so that we are, as Mendelson says of the setting and context  of GR, in that gestation period, that 9 months around the end of the Second Great War, when contemporary history begins its life, and in the immediate present of the readers, circa 1972. This double Vision allows the author  both a prophetic and satirical Vision.
>>>  
>>>  [the differrences bewtween Anatomy, M-Satire, Encyclopedia have been much discussed here, so...whatever].
>>>  
>>> Recent P scholarship has focused on the use of parody, the encylopedia of  literary styles. This, of course, is what makes AGTD such a masterpiece, one that we put on the top shelf next to Melville's grand encyclopedic romances, M-D, C-M, and with Joyce etc.     
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>>> Brian McHale has turned this to good effect in his essay "Genre as History: Pynchon's Genre-Poaching," which offers a perceptive analysis of Pynchon's incorporation of popular generic forms into his work.
>>>  
>>> https://www.pynchon.net/owap/article/view/26/82
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