Wright State University CORE Scholar English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications English Language and Literatures 1999 "His Kipling Period": Bakhtinian Reflections on Annotation, Heteroglossia and Terrorism in the Pynchon Trade Carol Loranger Wright State University - Main Campus,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/english Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Repository Citation Loranger, C. (1999). "His Kipling Period": Bakhtinian Reflections on Annotation, Heteroglossia and Terrorism in the Pynchon Trade. Pynchon Notes, 44-45, 155-168. https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/english/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the English Language and Literatures at CORE Scholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of CORE Scholar. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. "His Kipling Period": Bakhtinian Reflections on Annotation, Heteroglossia and Terrorism in the Pynchon Trade Carol Schaechterle Loranger Upperclassman: Do you li ke Kipling? Coed: I don't know, I've never kippled. While not a dismal science, annotation is at best an inexact one especially when appli ed to a text as polymathically perverse as Gravity's Rainbow. Like other readers, annotators are burdened by their ow n plots, their "terministic screens," as Kenneth Burke would have it, as well as by the chimeric nature of their archaeologies : the haphazardly attained, hermetical cu ltural literacy of another human being. One is not surprised that information not tending directly to support the annotator's thesis occasionally slips through the cracks or that the annotator might stop looking when he or she seems to have found an adequate source.