ENG 3378 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
13 Jun 2018
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ENG3378- Lecture 4- May 14, 2018
• Focus is the key to these novels
• We need to think about why the novels we are looking at are in the order they are in- this is
because of influence- Stein influenced Winesburg Ohio
• Looking once again at the map- it is shown that the map has more inaccuracies than it being an
accurate map of Winesburg- this was more due to the influence of Andersons publisher
• Adeso does’t astat like “tei ut does ed fo siilal
• Adeso did’t at to all his ook Wiesurg Ohio- he wanted to call it the book of the
grotesque- publisher chose to change partially due to marketing
• But also since Winesburg Ohio gave it a more accurate name- gives a more boring look but
easier to understand
• Struggle with the fact that we have to struggle with competing voices in this text
• Works well despite, by changing the name it allows people to actually want to buy the book
• Old man wrote the book of the grotesque but it never was published- if Anderson got his way
then his book would be pulished ee though i the ook it as ot
• Think about the old a’s defiitio of gotesue *
• Anyone of the characters are considered concerned is said to be grotesque- they have sought to
seek out and live by a single truth – virginity- or lust- or excess- or luxury- grotesque because
they live their lives on one single thing- they become exaggerated
• Each of the people are label able- they can be reduced to a single essence which makes them
grotesque- each of the people are have a single label- but is this true?
• All the stories are very similar- so in a way no- we get reoccurrence like in Stein. All begin in day
and end at twilight
• All the characters have a fascination with hands- the book begins with a chapter titles hands –
trouble with hands- if occurs in all the of them – comes back to what the old man said as
grotesque
• keep ou hads to ouself- father says while beating Wayne- he has done nothing wrong to
be labelled as grotesque – the boy misinterprets the situation and informs father and all the
fathers and mothers get riled up and teacher ends up with negative exaggeration
• Fustatig eause thee is satteig of eleets i the ook that does’t atte o the ap
where other places that matter greatly are under exaggerated or left off entirely
• Why does the title of WO work well? Forget about the small town aspect and the collection of
random stories
• While the stories are all about one town all the stories are independent of each other
• Is the title accurate? To deal with the whole town when only a handful of random people in the
town
• It’s all aout the eah eeedig the gasp i.e Great Gatsby- the reaching out at the end of the
dock to reach for Daisy across the bay – Daisy is not worth what Gatsby is trying to instil in her-
Fitzgerald abandons modernism in this piece- he is incredibly old fashioned and while Daisy is
superficial she means something to Gatsby and to Fitzgerald
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