Teaching Hemingway and war / edited by Alex Vernon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-258) and index.

Foreword / Mark P. Ott -- Introduction / Alex Vernon -- Part 1: The Great War. The violence of story : teaching In Our Times and narrative rhetoric / Alexander Hollenberg ; "Our fathers lied" : the Great War and paternal betrayal in Hemingway's In Our Time / Lisa Tyler ; Connective gestures : Mulk Raj Anand, Ernest Hemingway, and the transnational worlds of World War I / Ruth A.H. Lahti ; Character construction and agency : teaching Hemingway's "A Way You'll Never Be" / Peter Messent -- Part 2: The Spanish Civil War. Seeing through fracture : In Our Time, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Picasso's Guernica / Thomas Strychacz ; Hemingway and the Spanish Civil War : the writer's maturing view / Milton A. Cohen ; "What you were fighting for" : Robert Jordan on trial in the classroom / Steven A. Nardi ; Teaching The Spanish Earth in a war film seminar / Alex Vernon -- Part 3: Trauma tales. Hemingway, PTSD, and clinical depression / Peter L. Hays ; "Shot ... crippled and gotten away" : animals and war trauma in Hemingway / Ryan Hediger ; The poetics of Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon : restaging the experience of total war / Christopher Barker ; "In another country" and Across the River and into the Trees as trauma literature / Sarah Wood Anderson -- Part 4: Ernest Hemingway seminar. Introduction / Alex Vernon ; Perceptions of pain in The Sun Also Rises / Josephine Reece ; A farewell to the armed hospital : military-medical discourse in Frederic Henry's Italy / Zack Hausle ; Pilar's turn inward : storytelling in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls / Anna Broadwell-Gulde -- Appendixes.

"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 emergence of modern warfare, through the Second World War, and as a writer devoted to re-creating experience on the page, Ernest Hemingway has gifted us with an oeuvre of wartime representation ideal for the classroom. Teaching Hemingway and War offers fifteen original essays on Hemingway's relationship to war with a variety of instructional settings in mind, and the contributors bring to the volume a range of experience, backgrounds, and approaches. The final section provides three excellent undergraduate essays as examples of what students are capable of producing and as contributions to Hemingway studies in their own right"--Back cover.