Teaching Pynchon

David Morris fqmorris at gmail.com
Sat Feb 13 10:17:12 UTC 2021


How many weeks is a typical Spring or Fall college semester?  Fifteen?
Do college courses require prerequisites for Pynchon classes? Doing GR
study w/o strict prerequisites, like having read it at least a year prior,
is a malfeasance of practice, in my opinion.

Which brings us to V.  A lovely novel and probably a good sized text for a
college semester.  It is in spirit and structure GR’s premier.  Easier, but
still quite complex, with loads of archetypal bones.  I would even suggest
V for high schoolers, with parental approval, of course.

David Morris


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