The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway (1926)

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The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway (1926)

• Ramón Saldívar
• Stanford University

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The Lost Generation

• You are all a lost generation, Gertrude Stein
• Vanity of vanities all is vanity.
• A generation whose lives coincided with the
  opening of the 20th c and whose lives were torn
  by WW I
• War and Technology

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Americanism and the Expatriots

• America in the 1920s
• Ku Klux Klan
• White supremacy, anti-Catholicism, and
  anti-Semitism
• Right wing reaction

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Irony as a principle of structure in SAR

• Modernity and Irony
• Irony defined
• Saying one thing while meaning another
• The warping of a statement by the pressure of
  context
• The Iceberg Principle
• Nobody ever knows anything SAR, 35

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Irony as a strategy of containment in SAR

• certain injuries or imperfections are a subject
  of merriment while remaining quite serious for
  the person possessing them, SAR 35
• The Simplicity of language
• The Simplicity of meaning
• The Irony of the Not Said
• The (Political) Unconscious