Every Thomas Pynchon Novel, Briefly Ranked

[Dave Monroe]

... a favorite, and I THINK (obliquely) related example, is how
Gladiator (2000) begins in black and white, then "fades" into (the
silvery, washed out) color (of most contemporary war movies--I first
noticed that with Saving Private Ryan (1998), + then "confirmed" it w/
Three Kings (1999)).  And then lets loose w/ a firefight (?!) of
flaming arrows reminiscent of the tracer bullets of Apocalypse Now
(1979) and/or Return of the Jedi (1983).

I've heard more than once someone (a comedian? Jerry Seinfeld? On
Seinfeld (1989 - 1998)) commenting on how WWII is always in B&W, but
the Civil War is always in color, but ...

... but point well taken.  Half of V., most of GR, VL, M&D, ATD, IV +
BE are all, in their historiographic metafictional way(s), "historical
fiction," both in terms of genre, + in terms of the context of they
publication.  But M&D really DOES put it in yr face, so ...

http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/Literary_Criticism/postmodernism/Hutcheon_outline.html

The REAL issue w/ those rankings, however, I would think, would be,
well, those rankings ...

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 4:06 AM, Jamie McKittrick <jamiemckit at gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting that only M&D is referred to as "Pynchon doing historical
> fiction" when practically all of his novels are "historical fiction"? Is
> there some kind of unspoken collective-consciousness boundary where we say
> 'everything prior to WWI is historical, everything else is modern'?
>
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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