Re:

I hear my name being called here ...

--- Robert Conrad Klein <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I'm doing my undergraduate thesis on M&D, and I'm
> just starting to cull some sources from the mass of
> criticism out there.  What are some good places to
> start (besides anthologies of articles about M&D)?

Again, whatever our differences (of fact or opinion),
I cannot stress enough how much I've appreciated
jbor--Robert, Rob--keeping the flame (if not the flame
war) going here.  He's really put his currency where
his keyboard is in this regard, and right from the get
go, viz. ...

PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE (with Reading Group Guide)

http://216.247.214.252/pynchon/index.html


TIM WARE'S WEB GUIDE

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/index.html


CRITICAL WORKS

Clerc, Charles. _Mason & Dixon & Pynchon_. Lanham:
University Press of America, 2000.

Horvath, Brooke and Irving Malin (eds). _Pynchon and
'Mason & Dixon'_.  Newark: University of Delaware
Press, 2000.

online essays by Peter Schmidt, Mark Siegel, Bill
Millard:

http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/pynchon/mason.html

http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/siegel24.htm

http://www.columbia.edu/~wbm1/snovian.html


RECOMMENDED REVIEWS

Coraghessan Boyle, T. 'The Great Divide', _New York
Times Book Review_, May 18, 1997, p. 9:

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/970518.18boylet.html?searchpv=
book-site 

LeClair, Tom. '_Mason & Dixon_'. Pynchon Node:

http://oz.uc.edu/~sola/Pynchreview.htm

Livingstone, David B. 'Mystery Train'. _Spike
Magazine_, September 1997:

http://www.spikemagazine.com/0997pync.htm

Mattessich, Stefan. Telluric Texts, Implicate Spaces',
1997:

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/text-only/issue.997/review-5.997

McConnell, Frank. 'Good and Plenty'. _Commonweal_
August 15, 1997:

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9504067/diss/rezmcconnell.htm

McLemee, Scott. 'Weird Morning in America'. _Salon_.
April 25, 1997:

http://www.salon.com/april97/pynchon970425.html

Menand, Louis. 'Entropology'. _New York Review of
Books_ 44.10, June 12, 1997, pp. 22-25:

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9504067/diss/rezmenand.htm

Moody, Rick. 'Surveyors of the Enlightenment'.
_Atlantic Monthly_ 280.1, July 1997, pp. 106-110:

http://www.TheAtlantic.com/issues/97jul/pynchon.htm

Overbye, Dennis. 'Street Cred: Pynchon Toes the Line'.
_Wired_, August 1997:

http://www.wired.com/news/topstories/0,1287,6177,00.html
 
Siegel, Mark. 'Review of Thomas Pynchon, _Mason &
Dixon_.' _H-Net Reviews_, August 1997:

http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=14776872015199

Skea, Ann. 'Mason & Dixon'. _Eclectica_ 2.5, Aug./Sep.
1998:

http://www.eclectica.org/v2n5/skea_mason_dixon.html

Wall Hinds, Elizabeth Jane. 'Making the Rounds of
History'. _Threads_:

http://www.altx.com/ebr/reviews/rev8/r8hinds.htm

Weisenburger, Steven. 'Pynchon Surveys Troubled Land'.
_Wall Street Journal_, June 22, 1997:

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9504067/diss/rezweisenburger.htm


MORE REVIEWS

http://216.247.214.252/pynchon/md_reviews.htm

http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9504067/diss/6.htm

http://www.libyrinth.com/pynchon/pynchon_reviews.html


http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=59252&sort=date

I will no doubt add what little is left soon as I get
a chance here, but ...

> What books of general theory should I check out? Is
> Frederic Jameson a good starting point?
> Thanks,
> RCK

Pretty much anything's a good starting point, point
being, to start, but, along Jameson's lines, at least,
see as well, e.g. ...

Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri.  Empire.
   Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2000.

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HAREMI.html

Available online (!) @ ...

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/pdf/HAREMI.pdf

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0107&msg=57328&sort=date

Harvey, David.  The Condition of Postmodernity:
   An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change.
   Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, 1989.

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0103&msg=53535&sort=date

... off the top of my head.  Again, will return to
this soon as I can.  And yr very welcome indeed ...

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