Title
Hemingway’s Short Stories: Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and Understanding
Document Type
Book
Annotation
Collection of thirteen pedagogically based essays for introducing Hemingway’s short stories, both those commonly taught and those frequently absent from reading lists, to students from secondary through graduate levels. Focusing mainly on Hemingway’s early fiction, Svoboda’s volume details numerous approaches for engaging twenty-first-century students with such contemporary issues as war, gender, ecology, and race representation.
Date
2019
COinS
Citation
Svoboda, Frederic J., ed. Hemingway’s Short Stories: Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and Understanding. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2019.
Book Chapters
Introduction
First Things: Teaching "Indian Camp"
Hemingway’s "The End of Something" for High School Sophomores
The Education of Harold Krebs, or Approaching Ernest Hemingway’s "Soldier’s Home" with Engineering Students in Israel
Reading between the (Color) Lines: Teaching Race in Hemingway’s "The Battler"
Hemingway’s "The Battler": Team Teaching and Questions about Race
Teaching Hemingway’s "Cross-Country Snow"
The Things that Nick Adams Carried to the Big Two-Hearted River
"Doesn’t It Mean Anything to You?": Teaching "Hills Like White Elephants"
Listening between the Lines: "Hills Like White Elephants" and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"
Corrupt Reading in/of Hemingway’s "A Simple Enquiry"
Filling in the Blanks: Teaching Critical Reading and Writing Using "Paris 1922" and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"
"The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," Theory, and the Systematic Literature Review
Reality TV in the Virtual Classroom: Teaching Hemingway’s Canceled Episodes ("The Last Good Country")