ENGL 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Robert Lowell, Eating Disorder, Club Foot
28 Apr 2018
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Final presentation:
● Pik ay of the riter’s that e hae ot read i athology
● Go through author, agenda, audience, artifact
● Pick work by them and talk about message, style, what a person today could take away from it
as a writer/learner/etc
● Think about writer in connection with course (contrast)
○ Romance & relationship
○ Crime & vice
○ Reform efforts
● Do you see them in the light of making it/ success
● 15 minute presentation
● goal= teach prof something, better insight
● Avoid powerpoint, can make key points (time self) ready to answer questions
● Can have note sheet (not from memory)
Sammy Glick
● Becomes successful screenwriter
● His downfall= lack of education, what matters to people in real world
● Schulberg- insider look at ugly side of Hollywood
○ Hollywood is a microcosm of society
○ Alger myth does not commonly exist- who you know/how you cheat, relentless, egotism
can create superficial success but not ethical success
○ Shows real take at Hollywood success
Hardwick
● Author- founder of NY review of books
○ During the newspaper strike, culture review not available
○ Starts it with husband Robert Lowell (from WASP Boston family, famous poet)
● Came from large family in Kentucky, father was a contractor
○ Not rich but comfortable life
○ Still not highly esteemed because it involves manual labor rather than smarts
● Decides that a good life would be to live in NYC and become part of NY intellectual (mainly
Jewish) movement
○ Felt that she had to prove herself- female, Catholic (not Jewish), not from NYC (hick
form KY), from working class
○ Strength: felt a connection to outsiders, working class people, willing to make fun of NY
elite intellectuals
● Agenda: shock the squares, become one of the tastemakers, raise the quality of US literature,
diversify
○ Wats to rig respet to lo life artists/orkers- they are human too (shock squares)
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Document Summary
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