Teaching Hemingway and the Natural World.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part One: Michigan -- "Nick trailed his hand in the water": Understanding the Importance of Landscape in In Our Time -- On Familiar Ground: Intimate Geographies and Assumptions of Place in Hemingway's Nick Adams Stories -- "Summer People, Some Are Not": Seasonal Visitors, Cottage-ing, and the Exoticism of Hemingway's Michigan -- Organic Space and Time: Using Henri Bergson to Explain Nick Adams's Intuition of the World in "Big Two-Hearted River" -- A Darwinian Reading of "Big Two-Hearted River": The Re-enchantment of Nick Adams? -- It's All About a Perfect Drift: Reading the Fishing Metaphor in "Big Two-Hearted River" -- Part Two: Gulf Stream -- Not Against Nature: Hemingway, Fishing, and the Cramp of an Environmental Ethic -- Man or Fish?: An Ecocritical Reading of The Old Man and the Sea -- The Sea Has Many Voices: A Maritime Studies Experience of The Old Man and the Sea -- Part Three: Africa -- "Shootism" Versus "Sport" in Hemingway's "Macomber" -- Pity and the Beasts: Teaching Hemingway's Stories via Sympathy for Animals -- Teaching the Conflicts in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" -- Part Four: Europe -- "I Hated to Leave France": The Geography and Terrain of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises -- A Few Practical Things: Death in the Afternoon and Hemingway's Natural Pedagogy -- Part Five: The Transatlantic Hemingway Text -- Flashbacks and the Trials of Hemingway's War Veterans: Healing in the Natural World -- Skiing with Papa: Teaching Hemingway in the Backcountry Snow -- Appendix: Teaching Materials -- Works Cited -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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