Level 4, Intermediate, Post 4, 'Themed Free Post 2'
Warm Salutations
Prospective Social Scientists from FACSO,
This week, I am bringing to you the fourth out of ten blog sessions.
In this particular session, you will be asked to do the following class assignment:
- Comments: Leave a comment on your post + 3 of your classmates’ posts.
Prospective Social Scientists from FACSO,
This week, I am bringing to you the fourth out of ten blog sessions.
In this particular session, you will be asked to do the following class assignment:
- Comments: Leave a comment on your post + 3 of your classmates’ posts.
- Word Count for post 4: 200 words
As usual, I leave you a critical review I wrote some time ago for you to read and comment on,
Mobilizing the object of study, Hemingway’s “The Sun also rises”
The following work attempts to look for an intertextual dialogue to occur between T S Eliot’s “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”, Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” and Hemingway’s “The Sun also rises”. For this to be achieved, several passages from both the poem and the novels have been selected in order to find a point of convergence concerning one paramount topic, the one of the ‘solitude in the quotidian’.
As a mode of beginning, the topic that may follow up: ‘the solitude in the quotidian’, portrayed in Fitzgerald’s and Eliot’s passages it is now reversed to the coming across of ‘company in the quotidian’. It is in the following lines of Hemingway’s novel that one may find such development of such topic “We stayed five days at Burguete and had good fishing. The nights were cold and the days were hot, and there was always a breeze even in the heat of the day.” (Hemingway, 66)
In the lines above, the voice of narration in Hemingway’s novel is presenting the interaction with the quotidian in a positive outlook. The passage of time is told as a natural, and there is no a tedious tone. There is no an accountancy of days and nights, but an accounting for pleasant experiences in the quotidian. To have “a good fishing” can be accounted for a pleasant and satisfactory experience found in the quotidian. (...)
References
· Eliot, T. S., and Frank Kermode. The Wasteland and Other Poems. New York, N.Y., U.S.A.: Penguin, 1998. Print.
· Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. New York, NY: Scribner, 1996. Print.
· Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. New York: Scribner, 1996. Print.
Hi René, I think it's curious how the diferent books talk about the solitude with a positive perspective when a lot of autors thalk in a negative and sad moment of their lives, is a lot more common to read about how the solitude damage a character life than when the solitude is use for good experiences.
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such a nice post. I believe that the everyday life is always hiding a memorable moment for us, only depends of how we see the world and conect with people
ReplyDeleteHi Teacher, I dont know this authors and it's so hard to understand what are you talnking about on this text, i supose this is a text writted for another context or something like that, i'll to look on internet to try to undertand better this text jijiji Best regards!
ReplyDeleteHi again, of the books you mention I have only read "the Great Gatsby", it's a great book. The other books I did not know. However, it seems quite interesting what you expose regarding the "solitude in the quotidian". I hope you are well during this quarantine.
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how the works of these authors can be interpreted and related through solitude, I have read The Great Gatsby and it's a great book
ReplyDeletewhen I read the Hemingway perspective I think it is the opposite of the quotidian in quarantine, because the days in quarantine are so tedious by the anxiety of the situation
ReplyDeleteRené, a very good post. I do not know the authors, but what is proposed seems very interesting to me. Solitude is an exciting topic, sometimes underestimated, that deserves constant investigation and reflection.
ReplyDeleteWarm greetings.
I really liked the last parraph, many of us feel solitude in our lifes because of the really individulist way of living in this world, but when you can find a company to pass your days in this earth the quotidian can change into something pleasent. The thing is that not all the time there's someone to make us company, there's when we need to learn how to be with ourselves and find that also pleasant in our quotidian.
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ReplyDeleteit would be interesting to read it in full
Thank you teacher for this post, it really is interesting.
ReplyDeleteSometimes loneliness is underrated, you have to learn to be with yourself, love yourself and feel full in it. <3
I like it too much when you manage to put together more than one work at a time, whether it's a film, a series or a book, and thus be able to make an analysis.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand I find the subject interesting, I think that loneliness is not well qualified in society, but I think this is a great companion of life when you learn to live first.
Such a interesting post. I didn´t know about the authors and I had only heard The great Gatsby because of the movie but I havent seen it yet, is the same Great Gatsby? I imagine the pages in the book should be nice because of this post so I hope maybe one day could read it.
ReplyDeleteteacher you are a very educated person
ReplyDeleteIt is a very interesting topic, even though I only knew F. Scott Fitzgerald from the movie of 2013, which was an adaptation of The Great Gatsby, and that thanks to this blog maybe can see it in another way, now my craving to read the book, because I suppose it must be complex than the movie was.
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ReplyDeletethe truth is that I did not understand the relationship very well, but it must be because the fragment is very short
this subject is very interesting, I only know of this author's work is what you see in the great gatsby, where Leonardo di caprio appears
ReplyDeleteHello teacher, very interesting what it raises. Because of that paragraph he shares, I was interested in Hemingway's novel. About what you write, I think it is important to learn to appreciate the company of the everyday.
ReplyDeleteIt's beautiful how it is exposed to enjoy the quotidian, either alone or with company. I think that the peace present in quotidian is not sufficiently valued today.
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