"I Was in Italy...and I Spoke Italian": The Cosmopolitan Battlefield of A Farewell to Arms

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John D. Schwetman

Hemingway and Italy: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives, pp.127-142

2017

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Title: "I Was in Italy...and I Spoke Italian": The Cosmopolitan Battlefield of A Farewell to Arms
Author/Creator: John D. Schwetman
Publication Details: Hemingway and Italy: Twenty-First-Century Perspectives, pp.127-142
Annotation: Analyzes Hemingway s treatment of the complexities of nationalistic identity underlying World War I. Schwetman looks at the divisions in class, ethnicity, and region that make up the novel s structure and undermine the very logic of the war. Discusses Frederic as a nonaligned Red Cross volunteer whose outsider status transcends national interests. Compares Hemingway s novel to Henry Dunant s A Memory of Solferino (1864), noting their shared thematic focus on war s aftermath and cosmopolitan sensibility.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Book chapter
Record Identifier: 991015136289903691