Teaching Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms

by Tyler, Lisa

• ISBN13: 9780873389174
• ISBN10: 0873389174
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-28
• Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr

Summary

This 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. Contributors include J. T. Barbarese, Brenda Gaddy Cornell, Peter L. Hays, Jennifer Haytock, Ellen Andrews Knodt, Any Lerman, James H. Meredith, Kim Moreland, Jackson A. Niday II, Charles M. (Tod) Oliver, Mark P. Ott, David Scoma, Gail D. Sinclair, Tom Strychacz, Frederic Svoboda, and Lisa Tyler. The Teaching Hemingway Series presents multiauthor collections of essays on various approaches to teaching Hemingway's major works to a variety of students--secondary public and private school students, cadets at military academies, undergraduate, and graduate students. These volumes are particularly valuable to teachers of Hemingway but serve the larger scholarly community as well.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Backgrounds and Contexts
History and Imagined History	p. 3
On Teaching Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms in Contexts	p. 16
Hemingway's Language and Style
Bert-and-Ernie Stylistics: Introducing Hemingway through a Discussion of Hemingway's Style	p. 43
Hemingway's Road Map: A Cartography for Teaching A Farewell to Arms	p. 59
A Farewell to Arms, World War I, and "the stockyards at Chicago"	p. 85
Modernism and World War I
Teaching A Farewell to Arms from a Modernist Perspective	p. 101
Teaching A Farewell to Arms at the U.S. Air Force Academy	p. 113
A Conversation among Wars: Teaching A Farewell to Arms as an American War Novel	p. 132
Gender Issues
A Journey Shared: A Farewell to Arms as Catherine Barkley's Story	p. 149
My Problems in Teaching A Farewell to Arms	p. 164
"The Things She Said... Wouldn't Amount to Very Much": Teaching Gender Relationships in A Farewell to Arms	p. 174
Pedagogical Approaches
Teaching A Farewell to Arms through Discussion: Harkness Strategies for a Student-Centered Classroom	p. 191
A Multimedia Approach to Teaching A Farewell to Arms	p. 201
Ernest Hemingway Presents: A Farewell to Arms	p. 221
Works Cited	p. 230
Selected Bibliography of Works on A Farewell to Arms	p. 238
Contributors	p. 244
Index	p. 248
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