Jumping on the Pynchon bandwagon ...

[alice malice]

James Wood must be getting a good kick in the britches from all this
flipping and flopping on the Pynchon Bandwagon. He, of course, argued that
Pynchon was too postmodern in style, too hysterical, though he at least got
it right by identifying Pynchon as an American, an inheritor of Melville's
Broken Estate, but for all his skill and confidence, all his days spent in
the America, Wood is a poor reader of American works. Not even a strong
mis-reader, as DH Lawrence is, but a poor reader of America itself,
expecting to find James at the bottom of the Mississippi, he pulls in
catfish and tries to make duck soup with it. Now that's hysterical! Duck
Soup. Over the Big Top hysterical.

Shouldn't the voice of Maxine wear a Mustache or chomp on a cigar?

Fables of Subversion
Satire and the American Novel
Steven C. Weisenburger

http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/fables_of_subversion

A Gravity's Rainbow Companion (I called it a "Key to GR" )
Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel



On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 9:33 AM, alice malice <alicewmalice at gmail.com> wrote:

> The marketing line, "jumping on the Pynchon Bandwagon", is a poor effort
> at self-deprecating irony.  Common enough in the academy these days where
> the anti-modern / anti-moral crowd once claimed immunity but ended up
> sharing a grave with the dead white males, not to mention the ideas of
> modernism, some of them Victorians,  they feasted on.  But you are correct,
> we have to admire the flip flop author, who keeps flipping and flopping
> like a McLuhan Circuit, even as the author's current books and currency
> sprays sparks from the Key to Gravity's Rainbow dangling by a tangle of
> lines signifying something Ben Franklin can't quite make out.
>
>  Weisenburger has managed to write three of the most useful books on
> Pynchon, the first two contradict each, though not entirely, but this new
> one seems to be a complete and perfect flip to the other side of his effort
> on postmodern satire.
>
> TV was a Flip. The Internet a Flop. As Bob Dylan always sez, "What else
> can ya show me?"
>
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Given the authors, I think it is proably a good book but this marketing
>> line, not so much..
>>
>> GRAVITY'S RAINBOW," DOMINATION, AND FREEDOM realizes a darker GRAVITY'S
>> RAINBOW than critics have been willing to see
>>
>>   *From:* Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
>> *To:* pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> *Sent:* Friday, January 31, 2014 7:41 PM
>> *Subject:* Jumping on the Pynchon bandwagon ...
>>
>> http://ugapress.blogspot.com/2013/09/jumping-on-pynchon-bandwagon.html
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
>>
>>
>
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