1.       Ernest Hemingway,  The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway.  Simon and Shuster.    ISBN: 0684843323  

2.       Ernest Hemingway,  A Moveable Feast.  Simon and Shuster.  ISBN: 068482499X   

3.       Ernest Hemingway,  The Sun Also Rises.  Simon and Shuster.  ISBN: 0684800713  

4.       Ernest Hemingway,  For Whom the Bell Tolls.  Simon and Shuster.  ISBN: 0684803356  

5.       George Orwell,  Homage to Catalonia.  Harvest/HBJ.  ISBN: 0156421178.  

6.       Djuna Barnes,  Nightwood.   New Directions.  ISBN: 0811200051

7.       T. S. Eliot,  The Waste Land and Other Poems.  Dover Thrift.  ISBN: 0486400611.

8.       Harry Fisher,  Comrades:  Tales of a Brigadista from the Spanish Civil War.  U. of Nebraska Press.  ISBN: 0803268998

9.       Cary Nelson,  The Wound and the Dream:  Sixty Years of American Poems About the Spanish Civil War   U. of Illinois Press.  ISBN: 0252070704

        10.    F. Scott Fitzgerald,  The Diamond as Big as the Ritz.  Dover Thrift Edition.  ISBN: 0486299910



Week 1 -- Wed Jan 12:   Introduction to Course --  World War One and the Rise of Modernism

• Reading:
• Ernest Hemingway -- Robert E. Fleming,  The Literary Encyclopedia
• Ernest Hemingway  --   Petri Liukkonen and Ari Pesonen
• Hemingway's journalism at the Kansas City Star
  
• Ernest Hemingway's Poetry
• photo of young Hemingway in uniform during WWI
• Hemingway in WWI
  
• Literary Ambulance Drivers in WWI
• A&E Hemingway biographical film -- in class

• Background reading:  
• Aspects of American Cultural History, 1910-1919 -- Archer Audio Archives
  
• 120 War Poems
• British World War I poetry
• links to World War I poetry and literature
  
• First World War.com
• definition of "Modernism"  --  Chris Baldick,  The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
• Modernism  --  Wikipedia

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Week 2  --  Wed Jan 19:    Paris in the Teens and Twenties:  Modernism and the Visual Arts 

• Reading: 
  
• Hemingway short stories:  from In Our Time (1925)  --  in The Complete Short Stories, pp. 59 to 180
• Hemingway:  An Introductory Overview --  Melvin C. Miles
  
• "Hemingway's Debt to Cézanne"  --  Theodore M. Gaillard, Jr.,  Twentieth Century Literature
  

• Background Reading: 
  
• In Our Time  --  SparkNotes
  
• Modernism  --  Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe, Sweet Briar College
  
• Modernism:  objects d'art from the Modernist period  --  Minneapolis Institute of Arts
• Modernism  (defined in theological terms)  -- The Catholic Encyclopedia (1911)
• The 1913 Armory Show
• Welcome to the 1913 Armory Show
• Cubism
• Cubism  --  Artcyclopedia
  
• Futurism
• Futurism  --  Artcyclopedia
  
• Dada
• Dada  -- ArtLex 
  
• Dada  --  Artcyclopedia
• Dada  --  WebMuseum, Paris
  
• Dada
  
• A Brief Chronology of Dada
• Dada in Paris
• Cut and Paste:  A History of Photomontage
  
• "Words and Worlds:  Dada and the Destruction of Logos, Zurich 1916"  -- John Scanlan,  Tout-Fais:  The Marcel Duchamps Studies Online Journal
• Surrealism
  
• Surrealism --  ArtLex
  
• Surrealism  --  Artcyclopedia
• Surrealism  --  WebMuseum, Paris
  
• Precisionism
• Precisionism  --  Artcyclopedia
  

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Week 3  -- Wed Jan 26:     Paris in the Twenties:  Literary Modernism  -- "Make It New"

• Reading:
• Hemingway short stories:  from Men Without Women (1927) -- in The Complete Stories, pp. 181-230. 
  
• Gertrude Stein -- "poems" 
  
• Gertrude Stein  --  Karen Leich,  The Literary Encyclopedia
• Gertrude Stein  --  Wikipedia
  
• "As A Wife Has a Cow:  A Love Story" 
  
• "21" from Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Faded 
  
• "If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso"
• Ezra Pound  --  poems
• Ezra Pound  --  Peter Wilson,  The Literary Encyclopedia
  
• "In a Station of the Metro"
  
• from "Hugh Selwyn Mauberly"
• "The River-Merchant's Wife"
  
• T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and "The Waste Land"
  
• T. S. Eliot  --  Marianne Thormählen,  The Literary Encyclopedia
• T. S. Eliot  --  Wikipedia
  
• E. E. Cummings  --  poems
• E. E. Cummings  --  Misty McGinnis,  The Literary Encyclopedia
• "tumbling-hair"  --  from Tulips & Chimneys (1923)
• "Buffalo Bill's"  --  from Tulips & Chimneys (1923)
• "it may not always be so; and i say"  --  from Tulips & Chimneys (1923)
• "suppose"  --  from & [And]  (1925) 
  
• "if I should sleep with a lady called death"  --  from  & [And]   (1925)
• "I like my body when it is with your"  --  from  & [And]   (1925)
• "Picasso"  --  from  XLI Poems  (1925)
• "nobody loses all the time"  --  from  is 5  (1926)
• "next to God of course God America I"  --  from  is 5  (1926)
• "my sweet old etcetera"  --  from  is 5  (1926)

• Background reading: 
  
• Gertrude Stein
• Gertrude Stein  --  MAPS:  Modern American Poetry
• Gertrude Stein  --   Petri Liukkonen and Ari Pesonen
• "Reading Language, Reading Gertrude Stein"  --  Bruce Andrews,  Ubuweb
  
• Tender Buttons:  Gertrude Stein Online
• a Gertrude Stein page  --  Al Filreis,  U. of Pennsylvania
• On Gertrude Stein  --  Frances Richard,  The Brooklyn Rail
  
• photographic portraits of Gertrude Stein  --  Carl Van Vechten  (click on the thumbnails for larger images)
• The World of Gertrude Stein  --  Ellen's Place
  
• Tender Buttons (1914)  --  Gertrude Stein
  
• Ezra Pound
•  Ezra Pound  --  MAPS:  Modern American Poetry
  
• "A Major Minor:  Ezra Pound's Poetry"  --  Donald Lyons,  The New Criterion
  
• T. S. Eliot
• T. S. Eliot  --  MAPS:  Modern American Poetry
• T. S. Eliot  --  Petri Liukkonen and Ari Pesonen
• Exploring The Waste Land  --  Richard A. Parker  (an annotated hypertext version of the poem)
  
• E. E. Cummings
• E. E. Cummings  --  MAPS:  Modern American Poetry
• E. E. Cummings --  Academy of American Poets
• E. E. cummings  --  Petri Liukkonen and Ari Pesonen
• An Unofficial E. E. Cummings Starting Point  --  Douglas M. Wipf
• E. E. Cummings  -- Tom Hutchinson   (online poems from above and photographs)
• links to 151 of Cummings's poems  --  PoemHunter.com
  
• index of Cummings's Complete Poems 
  
• The Paintings of E. E. Cummings
  
• Aspects of American Cultural History, 1920-1929  --  Archer Audio Archives
  
• Modernist Poetry in English  --  Wikipedia
  

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Week 4  -- Wed  Feb 2:      Paris in the Twenties:  Modernism and the Jazz Age

• Reading: 
  
• Hemingway short stories:  from Men Without Women (1927) -- in The Complete Stories, pp. 231-282. 
• F. Scott Fitzgerald,  stories from The Diamond Big as the Ritz
• A Brief Life of Fitzgerald  --  Matthew Bruccoli,  U. of South Carolina
• F. Scott Fitzgerald  --  Anne M. Scott, The Literary Encyclopedia
• F. Scott Fitzgerald  --  Wikipedia

• Background reading:
  
• "Discerning Dysfunction: Economics and Family in the Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway"  --  Veronica Evans, Florida State U.
  
• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• F. Scott Fitzgerald  --  Scott Donaldson,  Dictionary of Literary Biography
  
• F. Scott Fitzgerald  --  Petri Liukkonen and Ari Pesonen
• Introduction to the Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald  --  Bryant Mangum, Virginia Commonwealth U.
  
• F. Scott Fitzgerald:  Featured Author  --  New York Times (contemporary reviews and audio recordings of Fitzgerald reading literature)
  
• F. Scott Fitzgerald links  --  Tom Larson
• The Jazz Age/America in the 1920s
  
• American Cultural History, 1920-1929  --  Kingwood College Library
  
• Clash of Cultures in the 1910s and 1920s  --  Ohio State U. History Department
• America 1918-1939  --   (see the sites on The Jazz Age - America in the 1920's;  The Red Scare;  The KKK and racial problems;  Prohibition and the gangsters;  America's economy in the 1920's)
  
• The Jazz Age:  Flapper Culture and Style  --  Thomas Gladysz
• Flapper Fashions:  1920s  --  Pauline Weston Thomas
  
• Jazz Roots  --  Thomas L. Morgan
• The Roaring 1920's Concert Extravaganza  --  (audio files of popular songs from the 1920s)
• The Internet Guide to Jazz Age Slang  --  David Larkins
  
• Jazz Age Culture  --  Kathleen Nichols,  Pittsburg State U., Kansas  (excellent set of links) 

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Week 5  --  Wed Feb 9:   Paris in the Twenties:  The American Expatriate Experience

• Reading:
• The Sun Also Rises
  
• The Sun Also Rises  --  Robert E. Fleming,  Literary Encyclopedia 

• Background reading:
  
• "The Memory of War"  --  William Adair, Twentieth Century Literature
• The Sun Also Rises:  Discarded Beginning  --  from typescript at U. of Virginia
• The Sun Also Rises  --  Melissa Carlson, BookRags.com
• The Sun Also Rises  --  Selena Ward, SparkNotes.com
• The Sun Also Rises  --  CliffsNotes.com
• The Sun Also Rises  --  ClassicNote.com
• The Sun Also Rises  --  Robert Dunn, Barron's Booknotes
  
• The Sun Also Rises  --  PinkMonkey.com
  
• notes and commentary on The Sun Also Rises --  David Schelle, Hotchkiss School
• bibliography on The Sun Also Rises  --  Michelle Gallinger, Michael Lundblad, and Meredith Willey,  U. of Virginia
  
• Ernest Hemingway:  A Bibliography  --  Paul P. Reuben,  PAL:  Perspectives in American Literature
• Americans in Paris  --  Harriet Welty Rochefort  (a good list) 
  
• Modernism and the Modern Novel  --  Christopher Keep, Tim McLaughlin, Robin Parmar, U. of Virginia

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Week 6  --  Wed Feb 16:   Djuna Barnes's Experimental Fiction

• Reading:
• Djuna Barnes,  Nightwood
• Djuna Barnes  --  Deborah Parsons,  The Literary Encyclopedia
• Djuna Barnes  --  Petri Liukkonen and Ari Pesonen

• Background reading:
  
• "Shadows"   --  Djuna Barnes  (a poem published in 1916)
  
• The Book of Repulsive Women  --  Djuna Barnes
• Ladies Almanack  --  Djuna Barnes
• lecture notes on Nightwood  --  Janet Lucas,  York U., Canada
  
• "Circuses and Spectacles:  Public Culture in Nightwood"  --  Laura Winkiel,  U. of Notre Dame
• "Looking the Part:  Performative Narration in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood and Katherine Mansfield's "Je Ne Pane Pas Francais"  --  Sarah Henstra,  Twentieth Century Literature
• "'Well of Course, I Used to Be Absolutely Gorgeous Dear': The Female Interviewer as Subject/Object in Djuna Barnes's Journalism"  --  Nanci Bobaci,  Criticism
  
• What Lies Beneath Djuna Barnes  --  Darcy L. Brandel and Jamie L. McDaniel,  Case Western U. 
  
• review of Barnes's Collected Stories  --  Peter Klappert
  
• Djuna Barnes Bibliography  -- Paul P. Reuben,  PAL: Perspectives in American Literature
• notes on teaching Djuna Barnes  --  Catharine Stimpson
  

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Week 7  -- Wed Feb 23:   Hemingway's Short Fiction of the 1930s

• Reading:
• Hemingway short stories:  stories from Winner Take Nothing (1933) -- pp. 283-378, plus "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," pp. 5-28 and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," pp. 39-58. 
  

• Background reading:
  
• commentary on "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," "A Way You'll Never Be," "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro"  --  CliffsNotes
  
• "Hemingway's Style"  --  CliffsNotes
• "'Scared Sick Looking At It':  A Reading of Nick Adams in the Published Stories"  --  Howard L. Hannum,  Twentieth Century Literature
  
• Aspects of American Cultural History, 1930-1939  --  Archer Audio Archives
  

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Week 8  --  Wed Mar 2:      "'There Is Never Any End to Paris':  Nostalgia and Memory in A Moveable Feast"

• Reading:
• A Moveable Feast
• A Moveable Feast --  Robert E. Fleming,  The Literary Encyclopedia
  
• Ideas for Teaching A Moveable Feast  --  Al Filreis, U. of Pennsylvania
• Hemingway's Paris  --  Steven M. Lane,  Malaspina University-College,  Canada
  

• Background reading: 

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Week 9  --  Wed Mar 9:   Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn:  Journalism and Short Fiction of the Spanish Civil War

• Reading:
• Hemingway's Dispatches from Spain -- articles in The New York Times
  
• Hemingway short stories on Spain and The Spanish Civil War:  "The Capital of the World," pp. 29-38;  "The Denunciation," ""The Butterfly and the Tank," "Night Before Battle," "Under the Ridge," and "Nobody Ever Dies," pp. 420-481;  "Landscape With Figure," pp. 590-596. 
  
• Martha Gellhorn, "High Explosive for Everyone" 
  
• Martha Gellhorn  --  Kate McLoughlin, The Literary Encyclopedia

• Background reading:
  
• Martha Gellhorn --  Petri Liukkonen and Ari Pesonen
• Martha Gellhorn  --  Scott Bleichwehl,  U. of Florida
• Martha Gellhorn  --  Spartacus Educational
• "Martha's Quest"  --  Kevin Kerrane,  Salon.com
• The Spanish Civil War  --  Wikipedia
  

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Week 10  -- Wed Mar 16:   Politics and The Spanish War:  George Orwell's Response

• Reading:
• George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
• George Orwell  -- Chris Hopkins, The Literary Encyclopedia
  

• Background reading:
  
• George Orwell  --  Spartacus Educational
• Orwell Chronology  --  Steven Kreis
• Dag's Orwell Photo Archive  --  O. Dag, Moscow
• "Spilling the Spanish Beans" (essay) --  George Orwell
  
• "Looking Back on the Spanish War"  (essay)  --  George Orwell
  
• Pictures of Orwell's Spain  --  Joel Wanderwerf
  

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Week 11  --  Wed Mar 23:   

• NO CLASS  --  SPRING BREAK

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Week 12  --  Wed Mar 30:   Hemingway's Epic of The Spanish Civil War, Part I

• Reading:
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
  

• Background reading:
  
• For Whom the Bell Tolls  --  SparkNotes
  
• For Whom the Bell Tolls  --  ClassicNote
  

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Week 13  --  Wed Apr 6:   Hemingway's Epic of The Spanish Civil War, Part II

• Reading:
• For Whom the Bell Tolls

• Background reading:
  
• "Return of Ernest Hemingway" (review of FWBT)  --  Edmund Wilson, The New Republic
• review of FWBT  --  Ralph Thompson,  New York Times
  
• "He Remembers Papa"  (on Hemingway and Milt Wolff of The Abraham Lincoln Brigade) --   Jon Rhine,  Salon.com
  

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Week 14  --  Wed Apr 13:   "Why We Went to Spain":  Harry Fisher's Response to Fascism

• Reading: 
  
• Comrades: Tales of a Brigadista from the Spanish Civil War
• poems from The Wound and the Dream

• Background reading: 

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Week 15  --  Wed Apr 20:

• Reading: 
  
• poems from The Wound and the Dream
  

• Background reading: 

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Week 16  --  Wed Apr 27:

• Reading: 
  
• poems from The Wound and the Dream

• Background reading: 

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Finals Week

Hemingway Unbound
Hemingway's Debt to Cezanne
Hemingway --  Wikipedia