Teaching Hemingway and War
Published on 6. January 2016
224 pages
978-1-63101-170-2 (ISBN)
Description
In 1925, Ernest Hemingway wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald that "e;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."e; 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 recreating experience on the page, Ernest Hemingway has gifted us with an oeuvre of wartime representation ideal for the classroom.
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Teaching Hemingway and War
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Kent State University Press
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Content
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part One: The Great War
- The Violence of Story: Teaching In Our Time and Narrative Rhetoric
- "Our Fathers Lied": The Great War and Paternal Betrayal in Hemingway's In Our Time
- Connective Gestures: Mulk Raj Anand, Ernest Hemingway, and the Transnational Worlds of World War I
- Character Construction and Agency: Teaching Hemingway's "A Way You'll Never Be"
- Part Two: The Spanish Civil War
- Seeing Through Fracture: In Our Time, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Picasso's Guernica
- Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War: The Writer's Maturing View
- "What you were fighting for": Robert Jordan On Trial in the Classroom
- Teaching The Spanish Earth in a War Film Seminar
- Part Three: Trauma Tales
- Hemingway, PTSD, and Clinical Depression
- "Shot . crippled and gotten away": Animals and War Trauma in Hemingway
- The Poetics of Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon: Restaging the Experience of Total War
- "In Another Country" and Across the River and into the Trees as Trauma Literature
- Part Four: Ernest Hemingway Seminar
- Introduction
- Perceptions of Pain in The Sun Also Rises
- A Farewell to the Armed Hospital: Military-Medical Discourse in Frederic Henry's Italy
- Pilar's Turn Inward: Storytelling in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Appendixes
- Appendix A: Character List, with Pertinent Scenes
- Appendix B: Trial Day Schedule of Events (For a 75-minute class period)
- Appendix C: Valid Objections in the Trial Process
- Appendix D: Teachers' Questions for Death in the Afternoon
- Works Cited
- Selected Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
