Pynchon's Against the Day, Genealogy & Gnosticism (Cowart & Eddins)

[ish mailian]

For Eddins, Weissmann is "a figure of such portentous evil and insidious
capacity that his creator Pynchon occasionally seems, like Milton, to be of
the Devil's party without knowing it" (142).

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 6:20 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> I breezed through that dissertation Kai posted and was not impressed. I
> certainly don't agree that the student corrected some gross error in Dwight
> Eddins's brilliant work, _The Gnostic Pynchon_
>
> David Cowart, one of the best readers of Pynchon in the Pyndustry makes
> judicious use of Eddins and call the book, "an important study."
>
> It's a difficult book, but brilliantly composed and one of the most
> insightful and orifianl readings of Pynchon I've encountered.
>
> Dwight Eddins, The Gnostic Pynchon (Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
> 1990).
>
> Pynchon, Genealogy, History: Against the Day Author(s): David Cowart
> Source: Modern Philology, Vol. 109, No. 3 (February 2012), pp. 385-407
>
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