M&D Deep Duck Read.

[alice malice]

Good of Chase to caution the reader against rigid definitions; his own
definition of American Romance, like Tanner's of American Mystery, is
anything but. Also, with caution against rigidity, we might think
about M&D as an American Gothic narrative.

On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 9:08 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> Alice reminds us that Pynchon writes Romances in the 19th Century,
> Hawthorne, Melville sense.
> Richard Chase was the definer of the contours and strength of Romance.
> Two snippets related to Pynchon
>
> "Chase finds in it a new American romance genre peculiarly suited for
> exploring unresolved contradictions ..
> While Chase cautions the reader against any excessively rigid
> definitions of the American prose romance, he does state that since
> romance as a genre is less committed to verisimilitude than the novel,
> it tends to veer more toward myth, ...'
>
> M & D: Mythic America, full of contradictions, eh? (I went to school in Canada)
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