If New York is the Big Apple, is Vienna the Big Croissant? IDK.
So, before we realized it, we’ve reached the final blog post of the term! I would probably say something sentimental, but in my opinion, what we’re going to talk about today is far more compelling than anything I can drum up 😛 (By the way, I apologize for the delay of this post – in […]
Schnitzler & Kid Cudi
When reading Lieutenant Gustl by Arthur Schnitzler, modern rap music is probably not the first thing that’ll come to most people’s mind, but as I read the text I couldn’t help but be reminded of the song ‘GHOST!’ by Kid … Continue reading →
Getting feminist about Kleist
In my last paper for this term in Arts One, I went the feminist-y route (my preferred route 124856% of the time) and wrote about the problematic representation of women in “The Sandman” and “Little Snow-White” (particularly with the importance beauty and appearance rather than brains). I wanted to also write about “Earthquake in Chile” […]
Descartes and Gustl…what?
I’m always late for blog posts, sorry guys…heh heh – *nervously looks around for ways to escape* Ok, so…. The lecturer (I kinda forgot his name BTW) mentioned Ernst Mach and his views on this story, and well I wanted to focus my presentation on that. So he brought up Descartes and his statement on […]
The Discomfort of Uncertainty
In Hoffmann’s The Sandman, one of the most obvious aspects of the story that is brought to our attention is how much uncertainty the reader has about the events occurring in the story. The story depicts a young university student … Continue reading →
Gustl and the Perception of Others
The style in which Lieutenant Gustl is written in is very interesting for a variety of reasons, but I think…
Human Nature
I have found that we read, and I wrote, a lot on human nature, the state of nature, and man’s inherent tendencies to be good or bad… or neither. In thinking about what I believe is really true on this … Continue reading →
I Can’t Handle The Truth
A discussion we had in seminar that really stuck with me was the one about truth. We went off on a tangent trying to determine whether or not the truth is objective or subjective. This really stuck with me. I thought about it for a while and each time I’d come up with a theory, […]
Lt. Gustl – Well, that escalated quickly…
Lieutenant Gustl is a story written completely in interior monologue, and was the first novel of the sort to be published. In this style, the reader gets to know the setting solely as it is described by the protagonist, Gustl, … Continue reading →
Austrian Putz, American Psycho
It says something about Lt. Gustl that the first thing it reminded me of wasn’t Catcher in the Rye (where I held equal contempt for the insufferable first-person protagonist), but American Psycho. The more I think about it, the more the two texts’ similarities … Continue reading →