English 205 is a course titled "Approaches to the Study of Literature" that I teach pretty much every semester. I am really excited about this class because we're in a room with some great equipment for accessing the Internet and doing all sorts of fancy stuff. I want students to remind me Monday 1/12 to take them to the OED Online at our college library, since that's a scholarly source that came up in class today that I want to introduce them to. Today we read Ernest Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" together and looked at a critical essay about it--and a reference to the OED gave an opening to mention it. I'd like to follow up on that, since I threw it out there, and maybe we'll go ahead and talk a bit about using the databases, as well.
Our discussion of Hemingway kicks us off nicely and relates well to the next reading, which will be F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. My favorite story about Hemingway and Fitzgerald is the one Hemingway tells in A Moveable Feast (probably pure fiction in what purports to be nonfiction) where the two are in a men's room and they compare sizes. Of course, since he is telling the story, Hemingway is bigger. Goes along with the submerged sexuality (part of that iceberg he talked about) in the story.
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