1914 1940 I was born wandering between two worlds one dead the other powerless to be born and have made in a curious way the worst of both Aldous Huxley Born 26 July 1894 Died 22 ID: 680681
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Ernest Hemingway & The Lost Generation Authors
1914 - 1940Slide2
“I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both”
Aldous Huxley
Born 26
July
1894
Died 22
November 1963Slide3
Lost Generation Writers
Lost
Value-less
Angry
Cynical
Generation
WWI
Expatriation 1920s
DepressionSlide4
http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cMOWzZflgESlide5
Major Writers
Ernest
Heminway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
e.e
.
cummings
T.S. Eliot
Gertrude Stein
John Dos
Passos
William Carlos WilliamsSlide6
Major Artists
Pablo Picasso
Georges
Braques
Marc Chagall
Juan GrisSlide7
Georges braques
Violin and CandlestickSlide8
Picasso Woman reading a bookSlide9
ChagallSlide10
Juan Gris still livesSlide11
why are they lost?
Gertrude Stein was the first to use the phrase after having read a draft of Hemingway's
The Sun also Rises
. Stein, and American ex-
patriate
living in Paris, was Hemingway's mentor and friend. He recounted that Stein said:
“
That is what you are. That's what you all are...all of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost
generation.” Slide12
modernism
Literature can be grouped not only by genre, but also by era:
Romanticism: Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe, Whitman (celebration of the individual and elevation of nature)
Realism: Sinclair (realistic portrayal of every day lives)
Naturalism: London (Nature becomes a character and mimics the violent nature of man)
Modernism: Hemingway (see next slide)
Post-modernism:
Kesey
, Vonnegut, Tim O’BrienSlide13
modernism
The modern period is considered to be between 1914 and 1965—the period that began when WWI blasted the past and history into apparent oblivion: “The past was dead. God was dead. People were alienated from all community. One could create one’s self only by existing . . .” (Harper Handbook 295).
The modern period in writing began with existentialism, was furthered by cubism, and ended in the psychedelic culture of drugs, free love, and the Vietnam war—which is the subject of our next novel,
The Things They Carried
. Slide14
Disillusioned with American ideals
“Grace under pressure”
Must confront death to assure life.
There is no life after death; we have one life to live. “When you’re dead, you’re dead.”
Men cannot act cowardly in the face of such certainty: he drinks, cavorts, and generally puts himself to the test, physically and mentally: bullfighting, boxing, hunting big game.
In the face of death, a man must enjoy and take the most from life.
The Hemingway heroSlide15
Hemingway’s style
No author has influenced American writing as much as Hemingway. His short declarative sentences stem from his time as a journalist for the
Kansas City Star
in 1917. He was told by his editor to omit all adjectives and adverbs, and he said that it was the best advice he ever received as a writer. But Hemingway didn’t just leave out adjectives and adverbs:
“In a preface written in 1959 for a selection of his stories . . . , Hemingway congratulated himself for his skill at leaving things out. In his story ‘The Killer,’ he had left out Chicago; in ‘Big Two-Hearted River,’ the war” (“The Art of the Short Story” 100).Slide16
What Hemingway reveals on the surface is only the tip of the story. His unstated message lies beneath and occupies a much larger role.
The icebergSlide17
Hemingway's place in literary history
Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 1953 for
Old
Man and the Sea.
Nobel Prize for literature in 1954
Works of Fiction:
The Torrents of Spring (1925)
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
A Farewell to Arms (1929)
To Have and Have Not(1937)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940
)
Across the River and Into the
Trees (1950)
The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
Islands in the Stream (1970)
The Garden of Eden (1986)Slide18
Works of non-fiction
Death in the Afternoon (1932)
Green Hills of Africa (1935)
The Dangerous Summer (1960)
A Moveable Feast (
1964)
Nine anthologies of short stories . . . Slide19
In our time
Hemingway published a book of short stories in 1925 entitled
In Our Time.
Benjamin Disraeli, upon
returning from the
Congress of Berlin in
1878
stated,
"I have returned from Germany with peace in our
time,” which is ironic , as
the German occupation of the
Sudetenland
began
on the following day
.
The phrase "peace
for
our time" was
said on
30 September 1938 by British Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain
in
his speech concerning the Munich
Agreement
and
the Anglo-German
Declaration.
Less than a year after the agreement, E
urope
was
plunged into World War
II
.
"Give peace in our time, O
Lord“ is a prayer from The Anglican
Book
of Common
Prayer.Slide20
“Soldier’s Home” and “Big-Two Hearted River” are from
In Our Time
.
“The Short Happy
Life of Francis
Macomber
”
and “In Another Country” are from
The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
Slide21
Hemingway’s wisdom via woody allen
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