Title
A Conversation among Wars: Teaching A Farewell to Arms as an American War Novel
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Details her graduate seminar on the American war novel featuring diverse readings of battlefront, home front, and postwar sensibilities. Haytock enumerates numerous approaches and resources, including World War I propaganda posters, and secondary readings about violence, war, and victimization by Freud and Elaine Scarry. Includes study questions on Frederic Henry’s wounding, Catherine’s evolving position from nurse to child bearer, and the roles of other noncombatants throughout the novel.
Published in
Date
2008
Pages
132-145
COinS
Citation
Tyler, Lisa, ed. Teaching Hemingway’s “A Farewell to Arms.” Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2008.