Title
Teaching A Farewell to Arms at the US Air Force Academy
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Discusses the challenges of teaching the novel’s untraditional thematic treatment of intimacy, war, and patriotism to conservative military cadets. Outlines their method for approaching the text through three distinct concepts of distance: geographical, chronological, and narrative. While the first two provide contextualization, the latter draws on the rhetorical theories of Wayne Booth’s The Rhetoric of Fiction (1961) to help students distinguish between author, narrator, and character. Concludes that this approach builds student research skills and empathy.
Date
2008
Pages
113-131
COinS
Citation
Tyler, Lisa, ed. Teaching Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms.” Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2008.