I originally encountered this work with Dr. Olivia Edenfield, Georgia Southern University, College of Graduate Studies, Fall 2023. These are my scratch notes.
The notes here do not include the In Our Time story cycle. Those can be found here.
- “Up in Michigan” and “My Old Man” may be the earliest written.
- “On Writing” – alternative (original?) ending to the Nick Adams story
- Gertrude Stein suggests against it: “Remarks are not literature.”
- Inspired by the visual arts
- value of disconnectedness to probe deeper ideas
- explaining the distance by highlighting what is up close
- Compare and contrast EH two sentence styles (possibly discussed in more detail by Phillip Young)
- short to the point
- longer more descriptive
- Iceberg theory – theory of omissions, minimalist, every word matters
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