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Thomas Pynchon in an episode of The Simpsons<\/p><\/div>\n

A note from Bob Denham<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

According to Robert Murray Davis, Thomas Pynchon<\/a> took Vladimir Nabokov’s <\/a>course in the novel at Cornell and somehow discovered what Northrop Frye called “Menippean Satire<\/a>,” a work based on the root meaning of satire, “satura,” medley, mixture. [“When Was Post-Modernism?” World Literature Today<\/a><\/em> 75, no. 2 (Spring 2001): 295-8.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Frye also\u00a0cites Pynchon\u00a0in\u00a0a discussion about\u00a0paranoia in Creation and Recreation<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A note from Bob Denham: According to Robert Murray Davis, Thomas Pynchon took Vladimir Nabokov’s course in the novel at Cornell and somehow discovered what Northrop Frye called “Menippean Satire,” a work based on the root meaning of satire, “satura,” medley, mixture. [“When Was Post-Modernism?” World Literature Today 75, no. 2 (Spring 2001): 295-8.] Frye […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satire"],"yoast_head":"\nFrye and Pynchon - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/08\/21\/frye-and-pynchon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Frye and Pynchon - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A note from Bob Denham: According to Robert Murray Davis, Thomas Pynchon took Vladimir Nabokov’s course in the novel at Cornell and somehow discovered what Northrop Frye called “Menippean Satire,” a work based on the root meaning of satire, “satura,” medley, mixture. 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