ENG 3378 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Iceberg Theory, Typewriter
ENG3378- Lecture 7- May 23, 2018
Cane + Hemmingway
• Toomer is like a constant move inward
• Hemmingway is in and out over and over
• Toomer recall was circular (broken, but circle)
• Toomer is the lost generation
• Watch the movement of poems
• Loss of poet’s oice as it goes o
• As it goes on the poems lose their voice
• Book ends with sunset, read how he wants, ends with sunrise
• Why is it dual?
Hemmingway
• Need to consider both sides of him
• Asshole, womanizer, alcohol etc.
• Ego maniac
• And the writer
• He said he used his typewriter as his psychiatrist
• Lost generation perhaps?
• Hates adverbs
• Gender prevalence
• What is a mans place?
• Return to arguments with Stein
• He has an iceberg theory of writing
• Heigay’s ipotat uote
• Only top of the berg is what has been written, the rest is all below the water
• The rest is subtext
• That is the only way to debunk/understand his book
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