Teaching Hemingway and war / edited by Alex Vernon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vernon, Alex, 1967- editor.

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Series:

Teaching Hemingway

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961--Study and teaching.

Hemingway, Ernest.

Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.

War in literature.

War and literature.

Study skills.

Physical Description:

ix, 267 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"In 1925, Ernest Hemingway wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald that "the reason you are so sore you missed the war is because the war is the best subject of all. It groups the maximum of material and speeds up the action and brings out all sorts of stuff that normally you have to wait a lifetime to get." Though a world war veteran for seven years, at the time he wrote Fitzgerald, Hemingway had barely scratched the surface of his war experiences in his writing, yet it would be a subject he could never resist. As an eyewitness to the emergence of modern warfare, through the Second World War, and as a writer devoted to re-creating experience on the page, Ernest Hemingway has gifted us with an oeuvre of wartime representation ideal for the classroom. Teaching Hemingway and War offers fifteen original essays on Hemingway's relationship to war with a variety of instructional settings in mind, and the contributors bring to the volume a range of experience, backgrounds, and approaches. The final section provides three excellent undergraduate essays as examples of what students are capable of producing and as contributions to Hemingway studies in their own right"--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction / Alex Vernon

Part 1: The Great War. The violence of story: teaching In Our Times and narrative rhetoric / Alexander Hollenberg

"Our fathers lied": the Great War and paternal betrayal in Hemingway's In Our Time / Lisa Tyler

Connective gestures: Mulk Raj Anand, Ernest Hemingway, and the transnational worlds of World War I / Ruth A. H. Lahti

Character construction and agency: teaching Hemingway's "A Way You'll Never Be" / Peter Messent

Part 2: The Spanish Civil War. Seeing through fracture: In Our Time, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Picasso's Guernica / Thomas Strychacz

Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War: the writer's maturing view / Milton A. Cohen

"What you were fighting for": Robert Jordan on trial in the classroom / Steven A. Nardi

Teaching The Spanish Earth in a war film seminar / Alex Vernon

Part 3: Trauma tales. Hemingway, PTSD, and clinical depression / Peter L. Hays

"Shot...crippled and gotten away": animals and war trauma in Hemingway / Ryan Hediger

The poetics of Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon: restaging the experience of total war / Christopher Barker

"In another country" and Across the River and into the Trees as trauma literature / Sarah Wood Anderson

Part 4: Ernest Hemingway seminar. Introduction / Alex Vernon

Perceptions of pain in The Sun Also Rises / Josephine Reece

A farewell to the armed hospital: military-medical discourse in Frederic Henry's Italy / Zack Hausle

Pilar's turn inward: storytelling in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls / Anna Broadwell-Gulde.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1606352571

9781606352571

OCLC:

899228972

Publisher Number:

99966323488