Teaching Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms

Lisa Tyler

• Editorial: The Kent State University Press
• Año: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781631010729
• Categoría: Literature
• Categoría: North American Literary Criticism

"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."-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.

Index

Abruzzi, Italy, 165

Absurdity, of war, 20, 171, 182

Active reading: in Harkness pedagogy, 192–94, 199; Hemingway demanding, 48, 152

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 47–48

All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque), 86; Farewell compared to, 13, 18, 20; Hemingway fear of being scooped by, 93

All the King’s Men (BBC film), 72

Allen, Warner, 5

Allies, in WWI, 6. See also specific countries

Ambulance drivers: Frederic as, 121–22, 140; Hemingway as, 3, 5–7, 21, 160; Trevelyan’s history of, 170

American novel courses, 16, 85, 174

American Red Cross: Hemingway with, 3, 5–7, 14–15; in Italy, 8; relief efforts by, 7–8

Angelo, Tom, 222

Anti-Semitism, in Hemingway’s writing, 43

Attenborough, Richard, 209

Austrian-German army, Italian retreat from, 8–9

Authors: implied vs. flesh-and-blood, 119–20, 124; narrators vs., 118–19; sources of information about wars, 23, 135–36

Autobiographical fiction courses, 86

Autobiography. See also Biography, Hemingway’s: Farewell not, 106, 135–37, 170; in “A Very Short Story,” 165, 170

Aymo (in Farewell), 109, 123; death of, 76, 96, 170, 174

Baby, Catherine and Frederic’s: Catherine trying to get rid of, 140; death of, 76, 170; Frederic and, 170, 199

Baker, Carlos, 64–66, 165

Bakewell, Charles, 5, 8

Barlowe, Jamie, 137

Barlowe-Kayes, Jamie, 152

Barton, Clara, 7–8

Battlefields of the World War, Western and Southern Fronts (Johnson), 5

Bell, Millicent, 171

The Bell Jar (Plath), 86

A Bibliography of the Works of Ernest Hemingway (Cohn), 13

The Big Parade (film), 18, 20–21

“Big Two-Hearted River,” 67

Bildungsroman, 159

Binary opposition: chivalric combat vs. WWI, 94; of concrete and abstract, 95; in structuralist theory vs. deconstructionism, 90

Biography, Hemingway’s, 60. See also In Love and War; college courses examining, 17, 165; compared to Frederic’s, 25, 105–6, 118–19, 135–37, 165, 170; In Love and War vs., 210–12; usefulness of discussing, 25, 88, 159–60, 177; using in novels, 159–60, 217

Body: betrayal by, 139–40; pleasures of, 74–75, 141–42, 158; politicized, 139

The Body in Pain (Scarry), 135

Bogart, Humphrey, 13

Bonello (in Farewell), 122–23

Booth, W...