One working definition of the term "Prynnite" might be, not just an
interested reader, but someone less dependent on (the always refused)
footnotes than others. It's possible to attempt a "naked" close-
reading on say, how the idea of monogram works in the textual moves of
"For the Monogram" but if there is also a modernist art of allusion
going on here then the difficulty of the text is characteristically
inflected in two ways. What seems subversive in some way (without
suggesting that JHP is solely concerned with the subversive) may at
the same time thicken up with allusive reserve, but we can only guess
at the status of that reserve. In the same way, the discovery of
possible allusions may be a readerly additive fiction, though Reeve 7
Kerridge have certainly substantiated some in JHP's earlier work.
I'm interested in the "for" in For the Monogram, and dedicational
hgorizons may work back into some of the stress-geography brilliantly
delineated by John Wilkinson. But if anyone has any further thoughts
on the monogram motif, I'd be interested . Does it involve a
turn through Leibniz' Theodicy? I'm just about to dip into this, even
though tracking an allusion down may not be how it functions - do you
lose it if you can only find it by excavation - is that an operative
path?
Peter
Peter Larkin
Philosophy & Literature Librarian
University of Warwick Library
Coventry CV4 7AL UK
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