Postmodern Sublime in Context
Joseph Tabbi, who has a chapter of his own in the volume, Pynchon in Context (Cambridge 2018), corrects two citational errors in this same volume. Both mischaracterize, by reading out of context a sentence in Tabbi's 1995 monograph, Postmodern Sublime (Cornell University Press). Because Tabbi&#...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2019-08-01
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| Series: | Orbit: A Journal of American Literature |
| Online Access: | https://orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/1387/ |
| Summary: | Joseph Tabbi, who has a chapter of his own in the volume, Pynchon in Context (Cambridge 2018), corrects two citational errors in this same volume. Both mischaracterize, by reading out of context a sentence in Tabbi's 1995 monograph, Postmodern Sublime (Cornell University Press). Because Tabbi's arguments are thought (wrongly) to support an "old argument" in Pynchon criticism, Tabbi brings this misreading to the attention of contemporary literature scholars, before the wrong impression becomes general knowledge. |
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| ISSN: | 2398-6786 |