01 TTH5 D/C 14358 BARNETT RAB-208
01-The Influence of Ernest Hemingway in Twentieth-Century Literature, Film, and Culture
Ernest Hemingway was the most influential twentieth-century writer. His style and values had a powerful effect on most American male writers of succeeding generations, and on writers in other languages as well. In this seminar we will read the best of Hemingway and a number of writers who carried his legacy into later periods: Norman Mailer, Jack Kerouac, Hunter Thompson, James Welch, and Tobias Wolff are writers—among many others--who were profoundly influenced by Hemingway. The Bogart hero in film is an incarnation of the Hemingway hero, and the “hard-boiled” detective figure, like Philip Marlowe, is still another.
The class will require a couple of short papers and one project that culminates in a 15 page paper as well as some oral presentations.
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