M & D Duck Read: still thinking on Mason.

[Monte Davis]

Is "Puritanism" the word you want?

On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 6:16 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Overdetermined, that Freudian concept. Why does Pynchon stress Mason's
> grief so hard? Why is his Puritanism as defining repeated? Does over
> determinism apply?,
> I think it might....so, taking my cue from TRP on tendril, I
> looked it up to see if I understood it and learned this,
> over determinedly as well, along with Freud's notion.
>
>
> The New Critic I. A. Richards used the idea of overdetermination in
> order to explain the importance of ambiguity in rhetoric, the
> philosophy of language, and literary criticism.
> -
> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>
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