P in Uni syllabi (not P on)

[ish mailian]

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On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 4:25 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> He might. why not? Several others at Harvard do and have.
>
> To answer the question about syllabuses, P is on a syllabus at all of the
> top programs in the US. What are the top programs? Well, that depends, but
> if you look at tier one schools, say the top 25 programs in English, you
> will find P on a syllabus.
>
> I've searched dissertations and syllabuses and P is all over them and has
> been for decades.
>
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>>
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