P in Uni syllabi (not P on)

[Paul Mackin]

Really too soon to have much of an idea. R and P aren't even dead yet. And
don't you have to be rediscovered at least once to become an immortal?

If P is in the syllabus at Harvard, will James Wood teach him?

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Too ambitious for me to help with.
> So, I'll just bloviate.
> A; Yes, P will grow while Barth fades. Where's Delillo? Wallace? Others?
> I do remember how Kesey's SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION was THE Kesey
> getting more bought at and since his death.
> That one might last (in a footnote way)
> Roth will be the Hawthorne to P's Melville of our time, to bloviate
> contentiously.
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 6:53 AM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Happy festive days passed to you all - Hail Sol Invictus!
> >
> > Does anyone know of a source (webpage, whateva) for cross referencing
> > University syllabi? I've poked around, but, ya'know, needle, haystack -
> to
> > the nth. I have come across numerous individual examples: not what I'm
> > lookin for.
> >
> > Some time back someone posted that TP's works were listed in all tier 4
> (if
> > I recall correctly) universities, which made me think it didn't refer to
> the
> > US uni system.
> >
> > It would be interesting to see what works by Pynchon are taught and with
> > what frequency, and also to compare that with other writers. For
> example, I
> > think Pynchon would come out above Kesey, but how would he fare against
> Roth
> > or Barth? And how would that look if we studied syllabi from the UK? Or
> > Germany?
> >
> > I know this isn't exactly what we've seen people discussing at the last
> few
> > Pynchon conferences (as far as digital humanities goes), but it does seem
> > like something that is achievable - please forgive my tech naivete/
> > ignorance - and relevant to the study of Mr. Pynchon's work. After all,
> is
> > not the inclusion of an author in syllabi a mark of an author's
> importance
> > in a society? Most universities require reading Shakespeare for an
> English
> > studies degree, far less require reading Marloweor Ben Johnson, unless
> one
> > is pursuing specialization in Elizabethan literature. Telemann was bigger
> > than Bach back in their day and Lope de Vega was feted more than poor
> > Cervantes, but history often grants victory over time.
> >
> > Our Absent author's lack of visibility (a thing that has undergone some
> > change) kept him so low profile for such a long time that he simply
> didn't
> > blip very much on the cultural rader; both Roth and Barth, though nothing
> > like Mailor the media hog, were far more a part of the public space. Are
> we
> > seeing that shift the other way? Might we hazard the speculation that in
> 20
> > - 30 years time (or more) the works of Barth and Roth will be reduced to
> one
> > or two works in a survey course, as examples of the howling of white men,
> > and Pynchon in a position homologous to that of Bach or Cervantes?
> >
> > So, any way to crunch and parse those Syllabi?
> >
> > ciao
> > mc otis
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