Teaching Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms
Published on 20. January 2013
272 pages
978-1-63101-073-6 (ISBN)
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"e;It is, I think, the collective hope of us involved with this volume that-through its authors' collective experience, intellectual rigor, practical advice, conversational tone, sample syllabi, and enthusiastic encouragement-it inspires future generations of teachers to return to this iconically modernist novel so that students once again have the opportunity to understand its artistry for themselves."e;-from the IntroductionThis first volume in the new Teaching Hemingway Series is a collection of richly nuanced, insightful, and innovative essays on teaching A Farewell to Arms from authors with varied backgrounds, including all levels of secondary and higher education. Read separately, the essays contribute to an enhanced understanding and appreciation of this master work. These seasoned instructors offer practical and creative classroom strategies, sample syllabi, and other teaching tools.
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Backgrounds and Contexts
- History and Imagined History
- On Teaching Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms in Contexts
- Hemingway's Language and Style
- Bert-and-Ernie Stylistics: Introducing Hemingway through a Discussion of Hemingway's Style
- Hemingway's Road Map: A Cartography for Teaching A Farewell to Arms
- A Farewell to Arms, World War I, and "the stockyards at Chicago"
- Modernism and World War I
- Teaching A Farewell to Arms from a Modernist Perspective
- Teaching A Farewell to Arms at the U.S. Air Force Academy
- A Conversation among Wars: Teaching A Farewell to Arms as an American War Novel
- Gender Issues
- A Journey Shared: A Farewell to Arms as Catherine Barkley's Story
- My Problems in Teaching A Farewell to Arms
- "The Things She Said . Wouldn't Amount to Very Much": Teaching Gender Relationships in A Farewell to Arms
- Pedagogical Approaches
- Teaching A Farewell to Arms through Discussion: Harkness Strategies for a Student-Centered Classroom
- A Multimedia Approach to Teaching A Farewell to Arms
- Ernest Hemingway Presents: A Farewell to Arms
- Works Cited
- Selected Bibliography of Works on A Farewell to Arms
- Contributors
- Index
