M& D Group Read (cont.)

[Mark Kohut]

Ah, the conspiracy of the separate snippet when everything doesn't connect.

Lensing quoting Wood BOTH love M & D to the skies. The snippet is part of
an argument that
the conspiracy (of History) framework of GR (and Vineland?) are Gone, gone
as gone girls in Mason & Dixon.

Mich Wood's over-the-top rave for Mason & Dixon was in Raritan, a review
with a thematic reading, not just
'full, rich characters and terrif prose":

In his detailed review "Pynchon's Mason & Dixon" (Raritan, 4, 1998,
120-130), Michael Wood first discusses the book's intentional aimlessness,
then takes up differing reviews of Louis Menand and James Wood. Next he
fixes upon the choices between "wonder" and "care," and determines that the
novel is "about learning, rather slowly, to care instead of wonder." He
next discusses Cherrycoke' snarratorrole and characterization of Mason and
Dixon, Pynchon's use of bantering prose ...

Now discuss THIS.

extra credit: Tanner's book on American Literature written before M & D:
The Reign of Wonder.

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 4:52 AM, matthew cissell <mccissell at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> I haven't read the article but a little research shows that the fellow was
> not exactly specialized in reading Pynchon. I won't say more because the
> poor guy died very young so he's not around to argue. However, the one
> Pynchon book that Michiko K. thought was good was M&D, so he took a pretty
> difficult position to argue. I find the book to be masterful in its
> narrative construction and structure. J. Wood slagged it off but he's a
> wanker who used to be keen on Pynchon, enough so to put him on a top 100
> list years ago. Doesn't talk about that now, does he?
>
> mc
>
>
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> On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 7:06 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As Michael Wood writes of* Mason & Dixon. *"No overarching conspiracy*, *or
>> even the steady suspicion of one, unites the
>> unravlled strands of this book" ---essay* Postmodernism at Sea*, Dennis
>> Lensing in Hinds' book.
>>
>> Discuss.
>>
>
>
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