P in Uni syllabi (not P on)

[Steven Koteff]

NYT article about a new syllabus database.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/24/opinion/sunday/what-a-million-syllabuses-can-teach-us.html

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 4:02 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

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> http://www.courseatlas.com/
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> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 4:25 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> He might. why not? Several others at Harvard do and have.
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>> 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.
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>> I've searched dissertations and syllabuses and P is all over them and has
>> been for decades.
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>> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> 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?
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>>> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> 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.
>>>>
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>>>> 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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>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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