After an apt interval, here is Icarus, or a splayed foot in the bottom right hand corner. Although formally appearing to receive short shrift (less seismic than the whale which amused us in today's class), his near absence is perversely the focus - playing in to our discussions of perspective, fragments and aporia.
Also a link to an interesting article about Auden, his collaboration with Isherwood on the hybrid mediation of the 'catastrophic' Sino-Japanese War, Ovid, and wider representational combats between the fatalistic heroes and anonymous victims of disaster. It's here -
http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/issues/current/31n4nemerov.html
1 comment:
that's an excellent essay you link to. didn't know about the aerial warfare link. surprised the author doesn't mention max ernst's war elephant painting, with the plane falling in the background.
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