The best in town
Ernest Hemingway
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.
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.
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:
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