Hemingway The Red Cross And The Great War

Author : Steven Florczyk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1612776957

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Hemingway, the Red Cross, and the Great War by Steven Florczyk Pdf

Ernest Hemingway s enlistment with the American Red Cross during World War I was one of the most formative experiences of his life, and it provided much of the source material for A Farewell to Arms and his writings about Italy and the Great War. As significant as it was, Hemingway s service has never been sufficiently understood. By looking at previously unexamined documents, including the letters and diary of Hemingway s commanding officer, Robert W. Bates, official reports of the ambulance and canteen services, and section newspapers published by volunteers, author Steven Florczyk provides crucial insights into Hemingway s service. The book opens by sharing tales of the volunteer ambulance units from the Western Front, which also led to the involvement of the American Red Cross in Italy. This was where Hemingway came to know many of the experienced drivers from France. In the spring of 1918 the young writer enlisted, serving first with an ambulance unit in Schio and then as a canteen worker at the Piave River until he was wounded. After the war when the volunteer outfits disbanded, Hemingway returned home where he took up his plan to earn a living as a writer. Hemingway s Red Cross experience was a major influence on his development as a writer and a thinker. Through the power of words, Hemingway s journalism, short stories, and novels exposed the falsehoods of World War I propaganda. His involvement with the Red Cross led to some of the finest American literature on the Great War.

Author : Steven Florczyk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1606351621

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Hemingway, the Red Cross, and the Great War by Steven Florczyk Pdf

Ernest Hemingway's enlistment with the American Red Cross during World War I was one of the most formative experiences of his life. As significant as it was, Hemingway's service has never been sufficiently understood. By looking at previously unexamined documents, including the letters and diary of Hemingway's commanding officer, official reports of the ambulance and canteen services and section newspapers published by volunteers, Florczyk provides crucial insight into Hemingway's service.

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476770451

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Hemingway on War by Ernest Hemingway Pdf

Ernest Hemingway witnessed many of the seminal conflicts of the twentieth century—from his post as a Red Cross ambulance driver during World War I to his nearly twenty-five years as a war correspondent for The Toronto Star—and he recorded them with matchless power. This landmark volume brings together Hemingway’s most important and timeless writings about the nature of human combat. Passages from his beloved World War I novel, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls, about the Spanish Civil War, offer an unparalleled portrayal of the physical and psychological impact of war and its aftermath. Selections from Across the River and into the Trees vividly evoke an emotionally scarred career soldier in the twilight of life as he reflects on the nature of war. Classic short stories, such as “In Another Country” and “The Butterfly and the Tank,” stand alongside excerpts from Hemingway’s first book of short stories, In Our Time, and his only full-length play, The Fifth Column. With captivating selections from Hemingway’s journalism—from his coverage of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–22 to a legendary early interview with Mussolini to his jolting eyewitness account of the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944—Hemingway on War collects the author’s most penetrating chronicles of perseverance and defeat, courage and fear, and love and loss in the midst of modern warfare.

Author : Keith Gandal
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421425108

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War Isn't the Only Hell by Keith Gandal Pdf

A vigorous reappraisal of American literature inspired by the First World War. American World War I literature has long been interpreted as an alienated outcry against modern warfare and government propaganda. This prevailing reading ignores the US army’s unprecedented attempt during World War I to assign men—except, notoriously, African Americans—to positions and ranks based on merit. And it misses the fact that the culture granted masculinity only to combatants, while the noncombatant majority of doughboys experienced a different alienation: that of shame. Drawing on military archives, current research by social-military historians, and his own readings of thirteen major writers, Keith Gandal seeks to put American literature written after the Great War in its proper context—as a response to the shocks of war and meritocracy. The supposedly antiwar texts of noncombatant Lost Generation authors Dos Passos, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Cummings, and Faulkner addressed—often in coded ways—the noncombatant failure to measure up. Gandal also examines combat-soldier writers William March, Thomas Boyd, Laurence Stallings, and Hervey Allen. Their works are considered straight-forward antiwar narratives, but they are in addition shaped by experiences of meritocratic recognition, especially meaningful for socially disadvantaged men. Gandal furthermore contextualizes the sole World War I novel by an African American veteran, Victor Daly, revealing a complex experience of both army discrimination and empowerment among the French. Finally, Gandal explores three women writers—Katherine Anne Porter, Willa Cather, and Ellen La Motte—who saw the war create frontline opportunities for women while allowing them to be arbiters of masculinity at home. Ultimately, War Isn’t the Only Hell shows how American World War I literature registered the profound ways in which new military practices and a foreign war unsettled traditional American hierarchies of class, ethnicity, gender, and even race.

Author : Daniel Gorman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472567963

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International Cooperation in the Early Twentieth Century by Daniel Gorman Pdf

The early 20th-century world experienced a growth in international cooperation. Yet the dominant historical view of the period has long been one of national, military, and social divisions rather than connections. International Cooperation in the Early Twentieth Century revises this historical consensus by providing a more focused and detailed analysis of the many ways in which people interacted with each other across borders in the early decades of the 20th century. It devotes particular attention to private and non-governmental actors. Daniel Gorman focuses on international cooperation, international social movements, various forms of cultural internationalism, imperial and anti-imperial internationalism, and the growth of cosmopolitan ideas. The book incorporates a non-Western focus alongside the transatlantic core of early 20th-century internationalism. It interweaves analyses of international anti-colonial networks, ideas emanating from non-Western sites of influence such as Japan, China and Turkey, the emergence of networks of international indigenous peoples in resistance to a state-centric international system, and diaspora and transnational ethno-cultural-religious identity networks.

Author : Linda Wagner-Martin
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826273796

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Hemingway's Wars by Linda Wagner-Martin Pdf

This is a study of the ways various kinds of injury and trauma affected Ernest Hemingway’s life and writing, from the First World War through his suicide in 1961. Linda Wagner-Martin has written or edited more than sixty books including Ernest Hemingway, A Literary Life. She is Frank Borden Hanes Professor Emerita at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a winner of the Jay B. Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement.

Author : Henry Pomeroy Davison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Red Cross and Red Crescent
ISBN : NYPL:33433070300029

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The American Red Cross in the Great War by Henry Pomeroy Davison Pdf

Author : Garrett Peck
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681779447

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The Great War in America: World War I and Its Aftermath by Garrett Peck Pdf

A chronicle of the American experience during World War I and the unexpected changes that rocked the country in its immediate aftermath—the Red Scare, race riots, women’s suffrage, and Prohibition. The Great War’s bitter outcome left the experience largely overlooked and forgotten in American history. This timely book is a reexamination of America’s first global experience as we commemorate World War I's centennial. The U.S. had steered clear of the European conflagration known as the Great War for more than two years, but President Woodrow Wilson reluctantly led the divided country into the conflict with the goal of making the world “safe for democracy.” The country assumed a global role for the first time and attempted to build the foundations for world peace, only to witness the experience go badly awry and it retreated into isolationism. Though overshadowed by the tens of millions of deaths and catastrophic destruction of World War II, the Great War was the most important war of the twentieth century. It was the first continent-wide conflagration in a century, and it drew much of the world into its fire. By the end of it, four empires and their royal houses had fallen, communism was unleashed, the map of the Middle East was redrawn, and the United States emerged as a global power – only to withdraw from the world’s stage. The Great War is often overlooked, especially compared to World War II, which is considered the “last good war.” The United States was disillusioned with what it achieved in the earlier war and withdrew into itself. Americans have tried to forget about it ever since. The Great War in America presents an opportunity to reexamine the country’s role on the global stage and the tremendous political and social changes that overtook the nation because of the war.

Author : Ernest Hemingway,Agnes von Kurowsky,Henry Serrano Villard,James Nagel
Publisher : Hyperion
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1996-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 078688214X

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Hemingway in Love and War by Ernest Hemingway,Agnes von Kurowsky,Henry Serrano Villard,James Nagel Pdf

Including rare documentary photographs, this epic, real-life love story offers a unique account of an event that shaped the life and work of one of the century's most charismatic and important authors and serves as an invaluable companion to the major motion picture it inspired. Original. Movie tie-in.

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571135919

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The Critics and Hemingway, 1924-2014 by Laurence W. Mazzeno Pdf

Traces Hemingway's critical fortunes over the ninety years of his prominence, telling us something about what we value in literature and why scholarly reputations rise and fall.

Author : Thomas Bevilacqua,Robert K. Elder
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781493080618

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Mythbusting Hemingway by Thomas Bevilacqua,Robert K. Elder Pdf

Did Ernest Hemingway kill 122 Nazis during World War II? Did he box heavyweight champion Gene Tunney? Did he grow his hair long and want to be called Catherine? Mythbusting Hemingway will feature answers to these longstanding questions and more. It’s fitting treatment for an author who won both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes, survived back-to back plane crashes, and played the cello. He really was “The Most Interesting Man in the World,” who once shot himself in the leg with a machine gun (while hunting sharks), got into a brawl with Orson Welles, and survived a domineering mother who dressed him up as the girl twin of his older sister until he was five. In this book, Hemingway myths—both true and debunked—will be informed by detective work the authors did for the Paris Review, Chicago Tribune, and Huffington Post—although 95 percent of the book is based on new discoveries. In addition, an original essay, never before published in a book, is included from Frances Elizabeth Coates, Hemingway’s high-school classmate, after whom a character was modeled his sexually charged 1923 story “Up in Michigan.”

Author : James McGrath Morris
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780306823848

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The Ambulance Drivers by James McGrath Morris Pdf

After meeting for the first time on the front lines of World War I, two aspiring writers forge an intense twenty-year friendship and write some of America's greatest novels, giving voice to a "lost generation" shaken by war. Eager to find his way in life and words, John Dos Passos first witnessed the horror of trench warfare in France as a volunteer ambulance driver retrieving the dead and seriously wounded from the front line. Later in the war, he briefly met another young writer, Ernest Hemingway, who was just arriving for his service in the ambulance corps. When the war was over, both men knew they had to write about it; they had to give voice to what they felt about war and life. Their friendship and collaboration developed through the peace of the 1920s and 1930s, as Hemingway's novels soared to success while Dos Passos penned the greatest antiwar novel of his generation, Three Soldiers. In war, Hemingway found adventure, women, and a cause. Dos Passos saw only oppression and futility. Their different visions eventually turned their private friendship into a bitter public fight, fueled by money, jealousy, and lust. Rich in evocative detail -- from Paris cafes to the Austrian Alps, from the streets of Pamplona to the waters of Key West -- The Ambulance Drivers is a biography of a turbulent friendship between two of the century's greatest writers, and an illustration of how war both inspires and destroys, unites and divides.

Author : Verna Kale
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780236025

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Ernest Hemingway by Verna Kale Pdf

Ernest Hemingway has enjoyed a rich legacy as the progenitor of modern fiction, as an outsized character in literary lore who wrote some of the most honest and moving accounts of the twentieth century, set against such grand backdrops as the bullrings of Spain, the savannahs of Africa, and the rivers and lakes of the American Midwest. In this portrait of the Nobel-prize winner, Verna Kale challenges many of the long-standing assumptions Hemingway’s legacy has created. Drawing on numerous sources, she reexamines him, offering a real-life portrait of the historical figure as he really was: a writer, a sportsman, and a celebrity with a long and turbulent career. Kale follows Hemingway around the world and through his many roles—as a young Red Cross volunteer in World War I, as an expatriate poet in 1920s Paris, as a career novelist navigating the burgeoning middlebrow fiction market, and as a seasoned but struggling writer still trying to draft his masterpiece. She takes readers through his four marriages, his joyous big game expeditions in Africa, and his struggles with celebrity and craft, especially his decades-long attempt at a novel that was supposed to blow open the boundaries of American fiction and upset the very conventions he helped to create. It is this final aspect of Hemingway’s life—Kale shows—that wreaked the greatest havoc on him, taking a steep physical and mental toll that was likely exacerbated by a medical condition that science is only beginning to understand. Concise but insightful, this book offers an acute portrait of one of the most important figures of American arts and letters.

Author : Nanette Norris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611478044

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Great War Modernism by Nanette Norris Pdf

New Modernist Studies, while reviving and revitalizing modernist studies through lively, scholarly debate about historicity, aesthetics, politics, and genres, is struggling with important questions concerning the delineation that makes discussion fruitful and possible. This volume aims to explore and clarify the position of the so-called ‘core’ of literary modernism in its seminal engagement with the Great War. In studying the years of the Great War, we find ourselves once more studying ‘the giants,’ about whom there is so much more to say, as well as adding hitherto marginalized writers – and a few visual artists – to the canon. The contention here is that these war years were seminal to the development of a distinguishable literary practice which is called ‘modernism,’ but perhaps could be further delineated as ‘Great War modernism,’ a practice whose aesthetic merits can be addressed through formal analysis. This collection of essays offers new insight into canonical British/American/European modernism of the Great War period using the critical tools of contemporary, expansionist modernist studies. By focusing on war, and on the experience of the soldier and of those dealing with issues of war and survival, these studies link the unique forms of expression found in modernism with the fragmented, violent, and traumatic experience of the time.

Author : Mark Spilka
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803235267

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Hemingway's Quarrel with Androgyny by Mark Spilka Pdf

Hemingway's Quarrel with Androgyny confronts the entrenched mystique surrounding the hard drinker, bullfighter, and creator of characters steeled by their own code. Spilka stresses Hemingway's lifelong dependence on and secret identification with women, and in doing so shatters the myths of male bonding and heroic lives of "men without women." He develops the biographical, literary, and cultural implications of Hemingway's lifelong quarrel with androgyny to reveal a more psychologically complex man and writer than the mystique has allowed.