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*Ernest Hemingway* *and* *Literature* *of the* *Spanish Civil War*	Hemingway during the 30s	Jefferson Hendricks English Department Centenary College of Louisiana Spring 2003 Wed 2-4:30 Texts/Schedule/Readings Policies and Requirements How to reach me Webliography

Texts

1. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
2. Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
3. Ernest Hemingway, The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War
4. Cary Nelson, ed. The Wound and the Dream: Sixty Years of American Poems about the Spanish Civil War
5. Edwin Rolfe, Trees Became Torches: Selected Poems. ed. by Cary Nelson and Jefferson Hendricks
6. Harry Fisher, Comrades: Tales of a Brigadista in the Spanish Civil War
7. Milton Wolff, Another Hill: An Autobiographical Novel
8. Mary Lee Settle, Choices
9. George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia

Class Schedule and Readings
[readings marked with ** are required readings; others are recommended

Week 1:

Wed Jan 8: Introduction to Course

Week 2:

Wed Jan 15: Historical Overview: Spanish History and The Second Republic, 1931-36

Readings: online historical background

**A Short History of Spain -- Manuel Fernández Alvarez, University of Salamanca
Notes About the History of Spain
History of Spain ( particularly pp. 7-10) -- Encarta Encyclopedia
History of Spain at Si, Spain
**The Spanish Civil War: An Overview -- Cary Nelson
**The Spanish Civil War -- Encarta Encyclopedia
**Spanish Civil War -- Encyclopedia.com
The Politics of the Spanish Civil War
The Civil War in Aragon 1936-1939--a map

In class film: Land and Freedom

Week 3: Edwin Rolfe's Committed Poetry

Wed Jan 22:

Reading: Edwin Rolfe's poetry from Trees Became Torches

**Edwin Rolfe links @ Cary Nelson's MAPS site
**Rolfe bio -- Spartacus Educational
"Art or Propaganda?" -- Barbara Foley (on proletarian literature of the 1930s)

Week 4: The Poet's War

Wed Jan 29:

Reading: poems from The Wound and the Dream

come to class prepared to discuss one of the poems as particularly meaningful and/or revealing of the experience of the War for you; we will go over several in class so be sure to bring your text

In class film: Hemingway biography from A&E

Week 5: Spain as Moral Geography -- Hemingway and "The Lost Generation"

Wed Feb 5: Note: Class will not meet in Mickle Hall; instead we will meet in Jackson Hall 111

Reading: The Sun Also Rises
**"Ernest Hemingway" -- Douglas Cooke (Gale Encyclopedia of Popular Culture)
**"Ernest Hemingway: A Storyteller's Legacy" -- Megan Floyd Desnoyers
**"The Sun Also Rises: A Memory of War" -- William Adair
**"Hemingway's Cult of Masculinity: The Search for the Divine" -- R.M. Garino
"the nada also sets" -- Mason West
"Hemingway's Debt to Cezanne: New Perspectives" -- Theodore L. Gaillard, Jr.
The Sun Also Rises -- Sparknotes
The Sun Also Rises -- The Pink Monkey

Week 6: "Ordinary" Americans in Spain

Wed Feb 12:

Readings: Harry Fisher, Comrades: Tales of a Brigadista in the Spanish Civil War

"Germans and Americans Facing Each Other Again" -- Harry Fisher (in The Volunteer, Sept., 2001, p. 16) -- you need the Acrobat reader; this is a pdf file