- Title
- 'Tell It Like It Was': World War II and the Institutional Curation of Memory
- Author/Creator
- David F. Eisler
- Publication Details
- Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present, pp.45-63
- Annotation
- Describes how Hemingway's work became a staple of academic creative-writing programs in the latter half of the 20th century, a leading example of the primacy of lived experience and progenitor of the teaching concept "write what you know." Recounts the spread of post-war writing programs and their attraction to returned war veterans whose education was financed by the G.I. Bill. Traces Hemingway's influence to The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, "Soldier's Home," "Big Two Hearted River," his Men at War anthology, and the Malcolm Cowley-edited Portable Hemingway. "A teachable Hemingway became a powerful tool for the postwar American classroom," Eisler writes. "Aspiring writers were captivated by his writing style and his authorial persona, unable to resist the clarity of his sentences or the projected glamour of his lifestyle."
- Publisher
- University of Iowa Press; Iowa City
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015211982303691
Book chapter
'Tell It Like It Was': World War II and the Institutional Curation of Memory
Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, WWI to Present, pp.45-63
University of Iowa Press
2022
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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