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American Modernism of the 20th Century: Ernest Hemingway

OUTLINE

Modernism: main features and authors

Ernest Hemingway: biography

Remarkable works

Conclusion

CONCLUSION

Remarkable Works

Main Novels

A FAREWELL TO ARMAMS, 1929

THE TORRENTS OF SPRING, 1926

THE SUN ALSO RISES, 1926

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, 1940

  • Hemingway became the first literary star in the U.S.

  • Strong influence on American literature.

  • His novels and short stories have become universal.

TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT,

1937

ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES, 1950

SLIDESHARE LINKS

Across the river and into the trees

Hemingway's presentation

Hemingway's presentation of

"Across the river and into the trees" (1950)

THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, 1952

THE GARDEN OF EDEN, 1970

ISLANDS IN THE STREAM, 1986

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Short Story Collections

Ernest Hemingway at his home in Cuba, the Finca Vigía, ca 1947.

Men Without Women (1927)

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In Our Time (1924)

Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)

  • The Fifth Column, and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938):

  • “The Capital of the World”
  • “Old Man at the Bridge”
  • “The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
  • “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".

Hemingway's interview after wining the Nobel Prize

The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)

Winner Take Nothing (1933)

Ernest Hemingway

(1899-1961)

Humble beginnings

Biography

  • Born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899
  • Raised in a literary, artistic, and wealthy family
  • “Oak Park is a neighborhood of wide lawns and narrow minds.”
  • Started career as a journalist at age 17
  • Mother is a singer; father is a hunter

Spanish matador Antonio Ordoñez

chatting with Hemingway

Hemingway aged 19

Ernest Hemingway, American Red Cross volunteer, recuperates

from wounds at ARC Hospital, Milan, Italy, September 1918.

  • A great sportsman: war conflicts, safaris and bullfighting

  • 1918: participation in WW1 as an ambulance driver in Italy
  • Seriously wounded by mortar fire
  • Awarded with the Italian Silver Medal of Bravery

December 1937, correspondent Hemingway was observing the Loyalists' drive to take the nearby town of Teruel.

  • 1920s: expatriate Americans in Paris

  • 1937: reporter in the Spanish Civil War

  • 1944: reporter in the WW2

  • Awarded with a Bronze Star for his service as submarine hunter in 1947

Hemingway's fishing boat,

the Pilar

Ladies' Man

Wives:

Elizabeth Hadley Richardson

(1921–1927)

Pauline Pfeiffer

(1927–1940)

Martha Gellhorn

(1940–1945)

Mary Welsh Hemingway

(1946–1961)

MODERNISM IN LITERATURE

Remarkable awards

Children:

Jack, 1923

Patrick, 1928

Gregory, 1931

  • Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1953)

  • Nobel prize in literature (1954) -

Prize motivation: "for his mastery of the art of narrative, most recently demonstrated in The Old Man and the Sea, and for the influence that he has exerted on contemporary style."

Main characteristics and authors

Ernest Hemingway poses with a water buffalo while

on safari in Africa, 1953-1954.

  • 1960: he began a medical electro shock treatment to treat his mental state -> loss of memory

  • 1961: spent the first half of the year fighting against paranoia and depression.

  • July 2, 1961: committed suicide shooting himself on the head.

"MAKE IT NEW!"

Ernest Hemingway lived in Cuba from 1939 to 1960

and there he wrote "The Old Man and the Sea."

William Carlos Willams

Ezra Pound

Modernist literature:

Main features

Pessimism (sense of decay)

Experimentation

Emphasis on perception

Subjectivity and multiperspectivisim

Fragmentation

Delves into depths of the narrator

T. S. Elliot

F. Scott Fitzgerald

  • Modernism is an American Literary Movement from 1890-1940
  • Impacted by industrialization, war, and changing values
  • Known for international impact as well
  • Popularized the use of "I" in novels
  • Showcases the turmoil of the mind and soul

Ernest Hemingway

William Faulkner

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