ENGL 2655 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Upanishads, Infertility, Social Class
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English: modern literature, poetry of first world war. Italian front was not seen as horrible as western front in france, nonetheless part of wwi. Period after 17th century bible is most important book for english writers: ecclesiasites: implies something cyclical - sun rises, falls, etc, hemingway said the earth is the hero - what does this mean? o. Immeditae forground of the novel: background where earth is hero, larger cosmic forces at place, deeper meaning, sense of cyclical time. With intro of cohn we find out a lot about barnes - gives and then takes away. Barnes" opinion of cohn is tainted with antisemitism. Maybe too influenced by things he reads. Barnes sees through cohn"s influences: barnes. Suspicious - has sense that people don"t always tell the truth about themselves, have to find out for yourself, have to believe your own senses.