Teaching Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (Teaching Hemingway Series) (Hardcover)

by Peter L. Hays (Editor)

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Product Description
"The Teaching Hemingway Series" presents multiauthor collections of essays on various approaches to teaching Hemingway's major works to a variety of students - secondary public and private school students, cadets at military academies, undergraduate, and graduate students. These volumes are particularly valuable to teachers of Hemingway but serve the larger scholarly community as well.This is a resource for Teaching Hemingway's landmark novel.Professor Peter L. Hays, an experienced teacher who has taught "The Sun Also Rises" for more than forty years, has gathered together other seasoned instructors who teach Ernest Hemingway's rich and complex novel. An informative collection of approaches to the presentation of "The Sun Also Rises", this volume provides historic background and a glossary of arcane references, presents critical interpretations, and offers methodologies to inspire teachers of college and high school students.From material on the bitter aftermath of World War I and the "Lost Generation" to current theories on the construction and performance of gender, this collection provides everything today's instructors need to develop and explain the themes in this classic of modern literature. The essays reveal that "The Sun Also Rises" is not just a work about the 1920s but a complex novel that can be taught as an embodiment of existential philosophy; a statement about the construction and performance of gender; and, a discussion of themes of masculinity, theory, and psychoanalysis.

About the Author
Peter L. Hays has professor emeritus in the English Department at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of The Limping Hero and Ernest Hemingway.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 403 pages
• Publisher: Kent State University Press (March 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873389549
• ISBN-13: 978-0873389549
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,584,900 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Solid Resource for Teachers, February 22, 2005

By	Peter J. Quagilaroli "English Teacher" (MA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Teaching Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises (Hardcover)

Includes a number of submissions from high school teachers and college professors and, as one might expect from such a collection, some are better and more accurate and useful than others. That being said, those that are helpful are extremely so. I have been teaching The Sun Also Rises for the past 11 years and I learned a good deal about the novel itself and various new methods of presentation. A worhty purchase if you plan to teach the book.