Università Roma Tre

Ernest Hemingway, His Works, His Characters, and His Literary Style

The aim of this course is to acquaint students with the basic tools needed to critically address an American literary text and familiarize them with major theoretical schools originating in the USA. This year I will offer a fine-grained analysis of the novels and short stories of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). I will address the latest approaches in Modernism scholarship to single out the experimental quality of Hemingway’s prose style. Together we will discuss the “ Hemingway’s hero”, Hemingway’s interest in the language of film, and his bold assimilation of photography and advertisement techniques, and, lastly, Hemingway’s influence on US and non US literatures.

Selection from The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. The Finca Vigía Edition, New York, Scribner, 1987.

The Sun Also Rises (1926), The Hemingway Library Edition, prefazione e introduzione di Patrick Hemingway e Sean Hemingway New York, Scribner, 2016.

A Farewell to Arms (1929), The Hemingway Library Edition, prefazione e introduzione di Patrick Hemingway e Sean Hemingway, New York, Scribner, 2014.

For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), New York, Scribner, 1995.

The Garden of Eden (1986), New York, Scribner, 1995.

PLEASE TAKE NOTE OF THE FOLLOWING:
-- I will announce more primary sources and all secondary sources during the term, and publish a complete and definitive syllabus on my webpage at the end of the course.
-- Students who are not able to attend classes will study a separate syllabus, already available on line on my Università di Roma Tre webpage.