ENGLISH 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Action Hero, Artillery Duel, Greek Mythology
22 Jan 2017
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Harrison leaves out order of training, etc from his book. Ja(cid:272)kso(cid:374)"s pai(cid:374)ti(cid:374)gs portray (cid:374)o order- dead trees (what the new weaponry does to nature) Most war painters were e(cid:373)ployed (cid:271)y ar(cid:373)y a(cid:374)d go(cid:448)"t to portray (cid:449)hat is goi(cid:374)g o(cid:374) (dead trees, dead bodies, etc) Not well received- (cid:374)ot glorified, (cid:862)distasteful(cid:863); te(cid:374)sio(cid:374) (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) people (cid:449)ho experience war and those who want something easier to take. Order (propaganda) vs chaos (reality)- 2 different visions of war. Pg. (cid:1005)(cid:1004) (cid:862)i try to i(cid:373)agi(cid:374)e ho(cid:449) a(cid:374) a(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:449)ould start (cid:863) Normal rules of cause and effect are suspended- last thing you hear is the gun, In text- theme of imagination vs reality (cid:271)y the(cid:374) the shell is there a(cid:374)d you"re dead. Not reality yet- i(cid:373)agi(cid:374)atio(cid:374) (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:272)o(cid:373)e (cid:272)lose. Narrator no longer imagines being an action hero- de-romanticized. Pg. (cid:1005)4 (cid:862)i re(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)er that i do (cid:374)ot (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e i(cid:374) god. (cid:863) Scandalous at the time he wrote- opinion was harrison is going to hell.
