Three Farmers on Their Way To a Dance | Literary Precedents
A literary precedent is not identical to a literary influence. Serious writers have universally wrestled with similar problems both thematically and in terms of how to control such matters as time and space. Having said this, one can then observe that James Joyce, particularly in Ulysses (1922J, and T. S. Eliot, most notably in The Waste Land (1922), came to grips with the same structural dilemmas that faced Powers as he set out to write one of the most ambitious novels of the last half of the twentieth century.
Certainly Fynchonesque elements also can be detected in...
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