Posts tagged “literature”
A special kind of fall.
In which he finally reads The Catcher in the Rye
“Then there is the other secret. There isn’t any symbolysm. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.”
Ernest Hemingway, 1952, in a letter to Bernard Berenson
Thomas Hardy
On Thomas Hardy’s “The Self-Unseeing” and “The Haunter”, an essay from 1996
Coleridge and Wordsworth
Discuss the differences in the ways the image of sunset functions in Wordsworth’s Intimations of Immortality and Coleridge’s The Lime-Tree.
The Sharks in Literature site has a lengthy excerpt from The Old Man and the Sea.
The Automobile and the Tiara as Symbols of Class Distinction
“The egalitarianism of modern America represents the essential achievement of the classless society envisioned by Marx.” F. Fukuyama
Innocence v. Experience
This is a take-home test for AML 3124 from the fall of 1995. I might have not exactly addressed the questions as they were presented, but if I had wanted to be a journalist or a writer-for-hire, I never would have majored in English…read away…lemme know what ya think, too…