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Teaching Hemingway and War
Alex . Ed(S): Vernon
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Paperback. Editor(s): Vernon, Alex. Series: Teaching Hemmingway. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Kent State University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Teaching Hemmingway
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Kent, OH, United States
ISBN
9781606352571
SKU
V9781606352571
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About Alex . Ed(S): Vernon
Alex Vernon is a professor of English at Hendrix College in Arkansas, USA. His Hemingway and war studies titles are Hemingway’s Second War: Bearing Witness to the Spanish Civil War and Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O’Brien. He has also edited essay volumes on war literature in general, on teaching the works of Tim O’Brien, ... Read more
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