Title
The Poetics of Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon: Restaging the Experience of Total War
Document Type
Book Chapter
Annotation
Argues for the centrality of Death in the Afternoon’s educative purpose for “seeing” the meaning of violent death beyond the battlefield and the bullfight. Barker invites students to compare Hemingway’s treatment of death through the ritualized tragedy of the bullring to the World War I trench warfare memoirs of German writer Ernst Jünger. Includes study questions for helping students explore the topics of death, suffering, trauma, and war.
Published in
Date
2016
Pages
157-171
COinS
Citation
Vernon, Alex, ed. Teaching Hemingway and War. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2016.