Choose the correct letter A B C or D 100 Since the 1920s Ernest Hemingway liked to be called A Kiddo B Papa C Granpa D Bro Ernest Hemingway 18991961 ID: 361057
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Slide1
Hemingway Pop Quiz
Choose
the
correct
letter
(A, B, C,
or
D) Slide2
$ 100
Since the 1920s, Ernest Hemingway liked to be called…
A: Kiddo
B: Papa
C: Granpa
D: Bro‘
Slide3
Ernest Hemingway
(1899-1961)
Hemingway Look-alike ContestSlide4
$ 200
In the
epigraph
to
The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway quotes
his mentor Gertrude Stein
saying: »You are all …«
A: a beaten generation
B: a lost
generation
C: a generation x
D: fruitcakes
Slide5
F. Scott Fitzgerald
(1896-1940)
M
odernist/realist Novelist
Ezra Pound
(1885-1972)
Modernist poet
Gertrude Stein
(1874-1946)
M
odernist writer, coined the term “Lost Generation”
LOST
GENERATION
Loss of
values
(as a result of the disillusionment after WW I)
Sense of
feeling
lost
(loss of orientation)
Generation of authors writing after World War I
(Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound)
The
Great Gatsby
,
1925Slide6
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the
orgiastic
future
that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---”
The Great Gatsby
(1925)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Plot in a nutshell:
In the summer of 1922, the narrator
Nick
Carraway
, a Yale graduate and World War I veteran, returns to New York City and rents a house on Long Island - next to the mansion of a mysterious
parvenu
named
Jay Gatsby
who has made a fortune through illegal activities during the Prohibition Era and is still in love with
Daisy
, the wife of his archrival
Tom Buchanan
. Believed to be the murderer of Tom’s mistress, Gatsby is finally shot in his villa; only few people attend the funeral.
Ending:
Main themes?
The American Dream
(
G
atsby is a ‘self-made man’ who makes it from rags to riches)
Illusions
(Gatsby’s world is a world of lies and surfaces)
What could the
“green light”
stand for?
Greenback
(U.S. dollar)
the world of moneySlide7
F. Scott Fitzgerald
(
1896-1940)
Ezra Pound
(1885-1972)
MODERNISM
“
Make it
new
”
(E. Pound)
‘Modern’ world view (personality, individuality, self-empowerment)
Literary movement
(
ca. 1900 – 1940s)
Experimental
ways of representation (non-linear storytelling, play with perspectives)
“A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
.”
(G
.
Stein)
Alienation
from established values
Hemingway –
threshold between
realism/naturalism and modernism
Gertrude Stein
(1874-1946) Slide8
$
300
A collection of short stories by Hemingway from 1927 is called…
A:
Men without Women
B:
Women without Men
C:
Men and Women
D:
Man or Woman?Slide9
Men without Women
(1927)
Collection of short stories
by Ernest HemingwaySlide10
$
500
In a 1958 interview, Hemingway
told
a reporter: »I
always try to write on the
principle of the…«
A: iceberg
B: earthquake
C: tsunami
D: volcano
Slide11
“I always try to write on the principle of the
iceberg
. There is seven-eights of it under water for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg ...
It is the part that doesn't show.”
Ernest Hemingway, 1958
The Iceberg PrincipleSlide12
For sale:
Ernest
Hemingway‘s
“Best Piece of Prose Fiction
”:
Baby shoes,
never worn.
Flush fiction
(short
short
fiction)Slide13
For sale:
Hemingway is a
modernist
since he …
Baby shoes,
never worn.
-
plays
with
our
expectations
-
challenges
the reader in his/her imagination
Hemingway is a
naturalist
since
he …
restricts
his
writing to the
most
necessary aspects- emphasizes loss of control instead of agency (characters are ‘driven’) Slide14
Hemingway’s ‘Naturalism’
- T
radition
of
Stephen Crane
(
Maggie,
“The Open Boat,”
The Red Badge of Courage
)
-
Harsh
, ‘cruel’ realism, portrayal of ‘real life’ without embellishment
(journalistic style)
-
Hemingway was
a reporter for
The Kansas City Star
and later for various magazines during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)
Main techniques & themes
:
-
U
nderstatement
(focus on ‘facts,’ not on direct emotions)
-
D
eterminism
(in contrast to the notion of free
will)- D
etachment
from the
depicted events
(
nameless characters) Slide15
“The
hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white
. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between two lines of rails in the sun. Close against the side of the station there was the warm shadow of the building and a curtain, made of strings of bamboo beads, hung across the open door into the bar, to keep out flies.
The American and the girl with him sat at a table in the shade, outside the building
.”
“
Hills
Like
White Elephants”
by
Ernest Hemingway
(
from
Men without Women,
1927)
Plot in a nutshell:
The story takes place on a hot and dry day near a train station in the Ebro River Valley in Spain. A
man
(‘The American’) and his
female companion
(whom he calls ‘Jig’) have a long conversation apparently circling around the woman’s pregnancy and a scheduled abortion.
Beginning:Slide16
Main
Themes
Characters
are designed as
archetypes (“
the American” / “the girl”)
Notion of being “driven”
(the man tells the girl, “I’ve known lots of people that have done it”)
–
underlying theme
of
abortion
Indifference
and lack of free will
(The girl
says, “I don’t care about me”)
Style
Short
sentences / concise dialogue
(many aspects remain hidden in the narrative gaps / “iceberg technique”)
Focus
on the
unusual details
of an incident
(
journalistic mode of narration)
sense of
distance
notion of
universality Slide17
$
1,000
Hemingway was born on the outskirts of…
A: New Orleans
B: Los Angeles
C: New York
D: Chicago
Slide18Slide19
$ 2,000
During World War I, Hemingway
served
as an
ambulance driver for the Red Cross in…
A: France
B: Austria
C: Germany
D: Italy
Slide20
A Farewell to Arms
(1929)
(Semi-autobiographical novel about an American serving in the Italian Army)Slide21
$ 4,000
Hemingway
never
…
A:
actively fought in war
B: drank
a
lot
C: went on a hunting trip
D:
smoked
heavilySlide22Slide23
For Whom the Bell Tolls
(
1940)
(Romantic novel about the Spanish Civil War)
Hemingway was
a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and actively fought against the Fascist regime of dictator Francisco Franco.
Participation in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39)
Robert Jordan
, a young
American, fights in the
Spanish Civil War
for the
“International
Brigades.” He joins a group of Republican guerilla fighters in the Sierra de
Guadarrama
(a mountain range between Madrid and Segovia)
, where he meets the
cowardish
Pablo
, his tough wife
Pilar
, and the beautiful
María
who
was
raped by the
fascists and with whom Robert falls in love.
When he becomes wounded, in his
attempt
to
blow
up
a
bridge
,
Robert tells his friends
to continue their escape
, while he, already dying
, lies in an ambush waiting for their pursuers.
Plot in a nutshell:Slide24
For
Whom
the Bell
Tolls
(dir. Sam Wood, 1943, based on the 1940 novel by Ernest Hemingway)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLDeLqYypw8Slide25
$ 8,000
In 1931, he moved to…
A:
Sydney,
Australia
B: Nuremberg, Germany
C: Key West, Florida
D:
Johannesburg,
South
AfricaSlide26
Key West, FloridaSlide27
$ 16,000
»All modern literature«, Hemingway
once
said, »comes from one
book, …«
A: Jack London‘s The Sea-Wolf
B: James Fenimore
Cooper‘s
The Prairie
C: Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s
The Scarlet Letter
D: Mark
Twain‘s
Huckleberry
FinnSlide28Slide29
$
32,000
Hemingway‘s
autobiography of his
years in France is named
…A:
Diner
B:
La Grand Bouffe
C:
Dolce Vita
D:
A Moveable FeastSlide30
Art Circle
(Gertrude Stein
taking
care
of
Hemingway‘s
son
)
Woody
Allen‘s
Midnight in Paris,
2010
)
Paris in the 1920s
(Hemingway
fictionalized
his
years
in Paris in
his
novel
The Sun Also Rises, 1926)Slide31
$
64,000
At the end of the movie
Se7en
, Morgan Freeman quotes the lines »world, fine, place« from Hemingway‘s novel …
A: The Sun Also Rises
B:
For Whom the Bell Tolls
C:
A Farewell to Arms
D:
The Old Man and the SeaSlide32Slide33
$
125,000
Next to a photograph of 2-year old Ernest Hemingway, his mother wrote …
A:
»spring child«
B:
»summer girl«
C:
»autumn boy«
D:
»winter kid«Slide34Slide35
$ 250,000
Which name did Hemingway give to his boat?
A: Anselmo
B: Primitivo
C: Maria
D: Pilar
Slide36Slide37
$ 500,000
With
which
author did Hemingway break
up friendship in 1937,
despite all warnings?
A: Scott Fitzgerald
B: William Faulkner
C: John Dos Passos
D: Ezra PoundSlide38Slide39
$ 1,000,000
Who
committed
suicide with an old Civil War
pistol?
A: Hemingway‘s father
B:
Hemingway‘s
hero
Robert Jordan
C: Hemingway‘s second wife Pauline Pfeiffer
D: Hemingway
himself
Slide40
Death
as Constant Presence in Hemingway’s Life and WritingsSlide41
“It was now lunch time and they were all sitting under the double green fly of the dining tent pretending that
nothing had happened
.”
“The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber”
by
Ernest Hemingway
(
Cosmopolitan
magazine, Sept. 1936)
Plot in a nutshell:
Francis Macomber
and his estranged wife
Margot
are on a big-game safari in the African plain, together with their guide
Robert Wilson
, who has a one-night stand with
Macomber’s
wife. Tortured by his own
cowardice
in the face of a wounded lion (from which he ran away), Macomber decides to play it ‘tough’ next time during a buffalo hunt, but is shot by his own wife while standing in front of the wounded animal.
Beginning:
t
ense atmosphere
shadow of
Macomber’s
‘emasculation’Slide42
“The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber”
by
Ernest Hemingway
(
Cosmopolitan
magazine, Sept. 1936)
Main themes?
Masculinity
vs.
Femininity
(Francis oscillates between ‘cowardice’ and ‘courage’)
Gender
Power struggle between men and women
(as Francis becomes more courageous, Margot gets more nervous)
Race
‘Sameness’
vs.
‘otherness’
(all main characters are white
setting of Africa as terra incognita
)
Class
Upper class
vs.
lower class
(Francis and his wife are rich,
the African laborers are poor)Slide43
I
mportant
works by Hemingway
In Our Time (1925) (first
collection of short stories which established the “Hemingway style”)
Death in the Afternoon
(1932)
(non-fictional work about Spanish bullfighting)
The Old Man and the Sea
(1952)
(
nobel
-prize winning novel)
The Sun Also Rises
(1926)
(novel about American expatriates living in Paris)Slide44
The Old Man and the Sea
(
1952) by Ernest Hemingway
“A man can be destroyed
but not defeated.”
Man cannot win the battle against nature, but has to keep
his
dignity
(“grace under pressure”
)Slide45
Other ‘Modernist’ Writers
John Dos Passos (1896-1970
)
especially Manhattan Transfer (1925)
(on the desperation of immigrants in New York)
William Faulkner (1897-1962
)
especially
The Sound and the Fury
(1929) and
Light
in August
(1932
)
(on the abysses of American society in the South)
Typical features:
-
Harsh portrayal
of
social reality
(no embellishment, claim to authenticity
)
- Characters are
controlled by external forces or fate (determinism) - Many different perspectives
(even that of a mentally handicapped person)