Hemingway wrote often about hunting and fishing, war settings, bullfights and boxing, and domestic situations. Readers seem to either love his stories or to hate them. In this course, we will explore the import and highly dramatized tension created by his predominantly objective point of view, frequently in dialogue without any comment by the narrator. We will discuss Hemingway’s fiction and how his life affected his writing. The aim of this course is to introduce some main themes that run throughout Hemingway’s fiction. We will focus on two stories for the first part of each session. Then we will gloss over the other stories for the session, linking them thematically and stylistically to the first two. I will then open the class to comments and questions.
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