Dr. Lynn Price Robbins and Isaac S. Loftus are joined by Charles Fournier to discuss Ernest Hemingway, his constructed identity, and vernacular landscapes. Hemingway looked up to Theodore Roosevelt and a romanticized, masculine version of the West, but he put on an entirely different persona in Europe. Who was the genuine Hemingway?

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OUTLINE:

0:00 - Introductions

1:41 - Why Ernest Hemingway?

7:25 - Learning More About Hemingway.

10:40 - Defining Vernacular Landscapes and Hemingway in the West

18:59 - What I Expected is Not What I Got When I Met Hemingway 

10:49 - How Michael Became Interest in Oglethorpe

22:37 - The Tension Between Hemingway's Desire for Fame and Authenticity

32:21 - Persona vs Authenticity

37:44 - The Persistent Effect of His Persona and Is There Anyone Like Him Today?

43:01 - Writing Styles & The Mythos of the West

53:26 - Historical Sites in Wyoming

55:20 - Where You Can Find Charles

EPISODE LINKS:

Podcast: Those Who Can’t Teach Anymore - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/those-who-cant-teach-anymore/id1646723683

Podcast: The Modern West - https://www.themodernwest.org

Look Out For: New Podcast with Diego Javier Luis!

Ernest Hemingway - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernest-Hemingway

Hills Like White Elephants - https://jerrywbrown.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Hills-Like-White-Elephants-Hemingway-Ernest.pdf

Big Two-Hearted River - https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/inourtime/section14/

A Moveable Feast – https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-moveable-feast-ernest-hemingway/1100213865

Langston Hughes – https://www.britannica.com/biography/Langston-Hughes

Hemingway and the Black Renaissance – https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814211779.html

Gertrude Stein - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gertrude-Stein

Ezra Pound - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ezra-Pound

James Joyce - https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Joyce

F. Scott Fitzgerald - https://www.britannica.com/biography/F-Scott-Fitzgerald

Vernacular Landscapes - https://www.tclf.org/vernacular-landscapes

Owen Wister - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Owen-Wister

Edward Abbey - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-Abbey

Zane Grey - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zane-Grey

Old Man and the Sea - https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Old-Man-and-the-Sea-novel-by-Hemingway

Hemingway’s plane crashes - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hemingway-and-his-wife-survived-two-plane-crashes-just-one-day-apart-180982884/

Hemingway and World War I - https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2006/spring/hemingway.html

Hunter S. Thompson - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hunter-S-Thompson

Hemingway with fish - https://www.anglersjournal.com/saltwater/fighting-big-fish-with-ernest-hemingway

The Sun Also Rises - https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Sun-Also-Rises

Karen Russell - https://karenrussellauthor.com

Finnegans Wake - https://www.britannica.com/topic/Finnegans-Wake

Paul Cezanne - https://www.paulcezanne.org

Cheyenne Frontier Days - https://cfdrodeo.com

Empire, Wyoming - https://www.nps.gov/places/empire-wyoming.htm

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