A Conversation among Wars: Teaching \u3cem\u3eA Farewell to Arms\u3c/em\u3e as an American War Novel

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Details her graduate seminar on the American war novel featuring diverse readings of battlefront, home front, and postwar sensibilities. Haytock enumerates numerous approaches and resources, including World War I propaganda posters, and secondary readings about violence, war, and victimization by Freud and Elaine Scarry. Includes study questions on Frederic Henry’s wounding, Catherine’s evolving position from nurse to child bearer, and the roles of other noncombatants throughout the novel

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