Thank you for posting this. The insight in invaluable and analysis on this book is rare to find even in academic articles.

A fun thought that crossed my mind while reading/listening to this lecture... He claims he was wounded int he war, and he now cant get it up. so he drinks his sorrows away. What if the irony in it all is he actually wasn't wounded in that way? What if it was a temporary thing and it might of come back had he just stopped drink.

Hem would simply say those that can't write talk.

Really fresh insights on Hemingway's works. Thank you! Also enjoyed the students discussion.

@ Edward Pionke / Richard Signore / Brendon Mustaciola / gabrielle somrak... Scott is an interesting and engaging lecturer and is well-versed in American fiction and Hemingway. Scott, I and many others appreciate you putting these lectures up online. Ignore the petty criticism from lame armchair critics who fail to see your perceptive comments and brilliant humour.

@signore1043

8 жыл бұрын

Explain "perceptive comments". Did you get the point? Regardless of how much one knows - a subjective view, for sure - the "critic" is the teacher who seems to prefer snide sarcasm to analysis. If you are involved with literature then you know that there has always been lively and pointed criticisms about the way a particular person views a writer's work. His style of lecture is enjoyable, and I appreciate also anyone who dares to expose themselves on the internet in such a fashion since the internet has become a forum for nastiness and anger. However, taking on "The Sun Also Rises" immediately puts a person on the firing line, I;m quite sure Scott understands that!

this lecture was decent. Sorry that it got cut off at the end.

excellent, thank you for posting!

I've always thought that Hemingway was a shallow person, a talented hack. Yet, now I feel sure that if I were to read him again, after 40 years, I would change my mind and the change might very well be in his favor. I don't know that this says anything good about me.Thanks for the insightful lecture.

@patrickleary4330

2 жыл бұрын

Sure, but what should we do about the jews?

@jesuisravi

2 жыл бұрын

@@patrickleary4330 treat them the way you want others to treat you

@patrickleary4330

2 жыл бұрын

@@jesuisravi but that’s not what they do. They operate a multi-faceted genocide campaign against Whites.

Why did Hemingway write about Paris? Could it be that Paris was an expatriate haven, the art and literary world considered it Mecca, Hemingway lived on the Left Bank, he frequented the Salons, esp, Stein's, and he ultimately wrote A Movable Feast about his time in Paris?

I take umbrage to this mans subjective conclusions that deliberately deviate from scholarly consensus, for example at 4:25 in the video, he admits the so called "Hemingway Hero Code" as not being actual terminology but rather a mere neologism, which unarguably is a big no no when imparting literary and biographical analysis, particularly with one as so crucial than that of Earnest Hemingway. Shame.

What's the prof's name? What school? He's compelling.

Jake ain't emasculated. The struggle for him is the result of that. Why do you miss that?

Yenor is engaging, but I wonder if audiences fully realize his intellectual & theoretical background is F. Nietzsche. Eg., "yes-sayer," staring into "the abyss," etc., this is all Nietzsche, and Yenor integrates him well into Hemingway. That said, Yenor might benefit from reading Nietzsche's passages closer--or at least provide his students the passages he himself leans on intellectually--because, eg., the yes-sayer passage's most relevant line is "turning away shall be my only negation." Is Jake turning away, pivoting away? No, Jake appears to slavishly "immerse" himself in yes-saying, as Yenor suggests, "in the moment." Is that what Nietzsche meant? Perhaps let his students decide by providing the full passage from The Gay Science like a responsible social scientist would. Perhaps that's the difference btwn UChicago & BSU? Also, is not sex the core of animal behavior next to eating? I wonder about the thesis of the lecture with regards to dismissing sex for, eg, golf. Perhaps Hemingway had lousy sex and thus preferred hunting fishing etc., to passionate sex (even as defined as sex for oneself despite the interlocutor, just like sex manifests itself in the animal world). What I found most useful about this video (4 of 4) is that I could finally see where I myself find Hemingway lacking: namely, sex is a direct encounter with nature, perhaps the most direct, and is in some senses a "struggle" for a human being as an animal, but perhaps Hemingway missed that in his own life, dismissed it too quick for what he saw as "direct" encounters, with fish, bulls, opponents in boxing. Just a thought. I thank Yenor for creating this video.

Myself a growing EH admirer, who many men liken to Lady Brett Ashley, I found this lecture both interesting and enlightening. Many thanks :)

@dominic9983

8 жыл бұрын

Hahaha

@signore1043

8 жыл бұрын

Make sure you read some other commentators, but most especially, read more Hemingway. His short stories, for example, are moving and perceptive and have influenced many writers, most especially, Raymond Carver.

@robertbayers3914

6 жыл бұрын

I didn't learn anything at all from this lecture. His audience is probably composed of American Novel 100 students---none of whom knows anything other than what's on their cellphone.

This is a rather bad lecture as the analysis, if that's what you want to call it, focuses on largely irrelevant aspects of the work. Moving from a ranking of environments to reasons for the characters' incessant drinking to the bashing of the institution of marriage the subtlety and nuance of Hemingway's work is not only overlooked but completely obfuscated. The lecturer and the students seem unable to appreciate the milieu in which the story takes place and are far too eager to judge the characters without thinking much about what it would have been like to walk in their shoes. The characters are part of what Gertrude Stein called the lost generation who were impacted by the horror of World War in profound ways that were not always easy to understand. To say that the characters were a bunch of bored drunks is, in my estimation, a gross oversimplification and does not do them any justice at all. Despite Hemingway's laconic prose and seemingly straightforward storytelling there is a richness of meaning in this work. One aspect of which was an underlying fatalism that was presented in a profound and moving way. Yes the characters are cynical and may lack "family" values but I did not find them unsympathetic. If you have not read the book don't let this lecture turn you off and if you have read it, and are looking for some meaningful explication, look elsewhere.

@chapmanzon1372

8 жыл бұрын

Agreed. I take umbrage to this mans subjective conclusions that deliberately deviate from scholarly consensus, for example at 4:25 in the video, he admits that the so called "Hemingway Hero Code" to not actual be terminology but rather a mere neologism, which indisputably is a no no when imparting literary and biographical analysis, particularly with one as so crucial than that of Mr. Earnest Hemingway. Shame.

Little men, like this intellectual bully, trumpet. In every way, he proclaims his lack of masculinity but doesn't teach about his subject--the man, Ernest Hemingway. (Read Richard Signore below.)

This professor is jealous of Hemingways masculinity! 😂

If this person is typical of professors today, I understand why modern literature is absolute shit.

The worst kind of teacher! A "critic" who thinks he's superior to the writer he's commenting on - not analyzing, commenting. His sarcastic lecture is trite and envious of a writer who achieved remarkable clarity of expression. Needless to say in our feminist time English depts. look askance at the "masculine" Hemingway, and this lecture reflects that prejudice. Hemingway may have been over-rated in comparison to other writers, however, as he developed the craft his language became more terse and poetic. In fact, I think Hemingway was looking to write novels that were extended poems. Read "In Another Country" and you'll find in the opening paragraph alone a passage that is more poetry than prose. Most teachers leave out Hemingway's use of language either from ignorance or indifference, however, it is an essential element of Hemingway's craft. Nevertheless, this lecture is a good example of the critical world's current estimation of Hemingway - unfortunately.

@chapmanzon1372

8 жыл бұрын

Point well raised.

@mybelle122670

6 жыл бұрын

Richard Signore gross

@Supertramp1966

5 жыл бұрын

Well said....

@gipperbr

3 жыл бұрын

Are you a teacher or professor? If not, please understand that a lecture is created with careful consideration of the target audience. If you are not an undergraduate student, try to put yourself in the shoes of a 19 or 20 year-old kid taking Prof. Yenor's class. He understands his students and delivers a solid lecture that meets them where they are. What magic do you expect from him?

High school shit

Does this guy have any insight to offer other than his own utterly underthought opinions? Does he have any critical capacity whatsoever? He completely misunderstands A Farewell to Arms and undermines THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE NOVEL in a single, totally perfunctory, completely unjustified (and unjustifiable) throwaway, afterthought sentence. Not to mention the fact that he actually fails to accurately recapitulate the content of the novel's conclusion--arguably one of the most profound, gut-wrenching moments in early 20th-century American literature. But nah, this Hemingway "scholar" is just gonna make shit up and say that it was part of the story... unbelievable. Not to mention the blatant sexism. "I had a great teacher who was so great because she was so pretty, and liked books." Cool, dude. Friggin... awesome. Thanks. And anyone else notice 12:40 where he literally has no fucking clue what Jake Barnes's name is? I could go on...

@Supertramp1966

5 жыл бұрын

Well said...Critics of Hemingway are like flies that accumulate in a room in which the window has been left open. And this dullard is no exception.

This guy has a job?

@heraalltheway

Ай бұрын

i think generation has changed. cuz ppl who wrote comment 4 years ago or more so pleased with his lecture. weird