In the first book of its kind, Joseph Fruscione examines the contentious relationship of two titans of American modernism--William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. At times, each voiced a shared literary and professional respect; at other times, each thought himself the superior craftsman and spoke of the other disparagingly. Their rivalry was rich, nuanced, and vexed, embodying various attitudes--one-upmanship, respect, criticism, and praise. Their intertextual contest--what we might call their modernist dialectic--was manifested textually through their fiction, nonfiction, letters, Nobel...

Teaching Hemingway in his time

Teaching Hemingway and Modernism presents concrete, intertextual models for using Hemingway's work effectively in various classroom settings, so students can understand the pertinent works, definitions, and types of avant-gardism that inflected his art. The fifteen teacher-scholars whose essays are included in the volume offer approaches that combine a focused individual treatment of Hemingway's writing with clear links to the modernist era and offer meaningful assignments, prompts, and teaching tools.

The essays and related appendices...