ENG 3378 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Iceberg Theory, Typewriter

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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

• Heigay’s ipotat 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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