ENG 3378 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: New Wave Music, Binoculars, Emotional Blackmail
13 Jun 2018
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ENG3378- lecture 8 – May 28th, 2018
In Our Time
• Went out to far- too experimental
• Stein was the 1st to sa he is’t as oder or as eperietal tha he thiks he is
• People did’t uderstad he laied
• Why did he add the 1st story?
• Tehiall it’s a authors itro
• However, we want to see it as a different author
• Not supposed to be Hemmingway
• Human experience changed after the war
• Specifically, masculinity in regards to Hemmingway
• We are conditioned by was- our experiences
• Title comes from Hymn- loss of beginning/end leaves us with very concise attitude
• Old fashioned spirituality cannot fit with the new world ideas- especially those dominated by
war
• See things from a different persepective
• Skyline with a naked eye, then with binoculars
• 1st story- differet arrator- aa fro Heiga’s arratie
• Point was to set us up for the rest of the stories
• Very un-American sounding narrator (Mark Twain who had a large influence on Hemmingway)
• Oozes American by sounding American
• i.e. word chap is used- very British
• e do’t hate the British aore hoeer, e do’t use the laguage
• conditioned experience- so why use a character so un- American
• so that we are de stabilized for the following stories
• if everyone sees it as normal- horrible but normal- whats the importance of using a different
voice?
• What does making it un normal matter
• Hemm. Had poor eyesight- thus ould’t joi the ar- joined the red cross – week of picking up
dead bodies
• 2 weeks in- shell explosion- discharged right away
• This experience is put onto Nick, he undergoes through the same trauma
• 20th century –becoming an American century
• 19th century- British wave
• ol geerals die i ed – old navigate while the young on the front lines- old die happy in bed
while young generations blown up
• Toomers book is not affected by the war, Hemm. Book is
• Everybody was drunk, word use of funny- has no meaning really, it is more of a placeholder-
used as a way to distance themselves from experience
• Say its funny yet nothing is funny at all- thus its ridiculous
• Refuse to confront it for what it is
• Utter abandonment of sense- jolly fun in regards to witness of war
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