Not "novel of ideas" but what was blowing in the Wind

[Mark Kohut]

This lecture is a pdf!

Thankee much.

http://www.cis-ca.org/jol/vol10-no2/Vol-10-2-Bk-rev-Brown.pdf

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 6:04 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, check out Brown on Islam. The Koran, Brown asserts, is "creative
> creation."
>
> The Apocalypse of Islam, Norman O. Brown
>
>
> The Challenge of Islam: The Prophetic Tradition.
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 5:58 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Repression's Rainbow: The Presence of Norman O. Brown in Pynchon's Big
>> Novel
>>
>> Lawrence C. Wolfley
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 10:25 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> The book that most helped me find resonance with GR was Norman O. Brown's
>>> "Life Against Death." Clearly it was a yuuuge influence on P. For GR.
>>>
>>> David Morris
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, December 14, 2015, Perry Noid <coolwithdoc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> That book helped me immensely after reading GR. It is great for folks
>>>> like me who require the cultural and historical context of the novel without
>>>> having to follow along reading every single annotation from that other
>>>> weisenberger book or the wiki. Helped me to understand the major
>>>> intellectual discourse from the "long 60s" as well providing further
>>>> context. I think it was last year or the year before when i first finished
>>>> GR, after joining the list, read this book immediately after, then re-read
>>>> GR again not too long after that. If I were reading GR for a college course
>>>> I think Domination and Freedom would be an excellent companion or aperitif
>>>> for students.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 3:41 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Before, during, and after GR.
>>>>>
>>>>> The novel of ideas is too confusing to me. I find that most definitions
>>>>> are loaded up with negative adjectives and that it does more harm than good.
>>>>>
>>>>> I like the thread that considers how America produced a different
>>>>> fiction from Europe.
>>>>>
>>>>> In this review, some good stuff.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.pynchon.net/articles/10.7766/orbit.v2.2.114/
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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