The best in town
Ernest Hemingway
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Hemingway's story "Soldier's Home" conveys feelings of frustration and shame upon returning home to a town and to parents who still have a romantic notion of war and who don't understand the psychological impact the war has had on their son.
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But first, you need to know something about the lost generation and what minimalism is.
Raymond Carver - postmodernism
Post-modernism is not a simple construction. We'll play with it primarily to give you an idea of what comes after modernism and to practise our close-reading skills necessary to read minimalism - or rather 'dirty realism' when it comes to Carver.
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If you want to, you can have a look at this video and the documents below. My advice is to at least read Post-modernism as genre - simple.
Bibliography:
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CrashCourse: “Modern Thought and Culture in 1900: Crash Course European History #31”, https://youtu.be/xGjpTjeGuZc
Balazs on Culture: “Introduction to Modernism”, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SozfIGPf58o&t=586s&ab_channel=BalazsonCulture
Delaney et.al.: Fields of vision, Longman, 2010: Excerpt of “A farewell to arms”, https://4a3d1df0-24af-48b2-a145-d6bbd22bc00a.filesusr.com/ugd/b7d215_2e4b1e1e35054d1ea29488bf1b9df597.pdf
Hemingway: “Soldier’s home”, From In Our Time, https://4a3d1df0-24af-48b2-a145-d6bbd22bc00a.filesusr.com/ugd/b7d215_2e4b1e1e35054d1ea29488bf1b9df597.pdf
Joyce: “Molly’s monologue”, From Ulysses, 1922, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H7frn6e-npZrea_EhF6-xXQrIrlRLIkr/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107534287869686072812&rtpof=true&sd=true
Irwin Shaw: “The girls in their summer dresses”, From: Paulli Andersen: The Lucid eye
William Carlos Williams: “The Use of Force”, 1938, https://www.classicshorts.com/stories/force.html
Robert Longley: “The Lost Generation and the Writers Who Described Their World”, Thoughtco.com, 2022, https://www.thoughtco.com/the-lost-generation-4159302
Amanda Headlee: “The “Iceberg Theory” of Writing”, Sarcastic Muse, June 17, 2015, https://thesarcasticmuse.com/2015/06/17/the-iceberg-theory-of-writing/, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GoM6Qw8-tmdyewC9ht0aebLGcYGLlYnL/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=107534287869686072812&rtpof=true&sd=true
Buzzle.com: Literary Minimalism: A Brief Overview of Why Less in More, November 12, 2016, https://www.buzzle.com/articles/literary-minimalism.html, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GoM6Qw8-tmdyewC9ht0aebLGcYGLlYnL/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=107534287869686072812&rtpof=true&sd=true
(Postmodernism - minimalism ):
Raymond Carver: “Why don’t you dance?”, 1977, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tmvIfxhjtHKBhenRkHObh4m5fzz3jZMK/view?usp=drive_link