Ernest Hemingway: Titan of American Literature
LIT-40064
Ernest Hemingway wrote “All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse.” One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, he has given us just that: A front-row seat at his musings on war, love, masculinity, morality, alcoholism, the American abroad, and the aimlessness of the lost generation. Through round-table discussions of The Sun Also Rises, A Movable Feast, and the short stories, we will investigate Hemingway’s spare, elegant, and emotionally ferocious stories. Whether you are discovering his works for the first time, or revisiting his brilliance, the works of Hemingway are likely to make a profound and lasting impression.
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Textbooks:
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition 1998
by Ernest Hemingway
ISBN / ASIN: 9780684843322
The Sun Also Rises 2006
by Ernest Hemingway
ISBN / ASIN: 9780743297332
You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.
Policies:
- No refunds after: 4/14/2025
- Early Enrollment Discount: $305 ($330 if enrolled after 3/3/2025)
- 1st no meeting date: 5/26/2025
Schedule:
| Date | Day | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4/8/2025 | Tue | 6:00 p.m. | 9:00 p.m. |
| 4/15/2025 | Tue | 6:00 p.m. | 9:00 p.m. |
| 4/22/2025 | Tue | 6:00 p.m. | 9:00 p.m. |
| 4/29/2025 | Tue | 6:00 p.m. | 9:00 p.m. |
| 5/6/2025 | Tue | 6:00 p.m. | 9:00 p.m. |
| 5/13/2025 | Tue | 6:00 p.m. | 9:00 p.m. |
Instructor:
Renee Weissenburger, M.A.
Worked as an artist for CoTA (Collaborations, Teachers, Artists) and as a literature & creative writing instructor at National University.
Reneé Weissenburger teaches Women and Madness, Ernest Hemingway: Titan of American Literature, Gender Identity & Literature: Him, Her & Us, and Glittering Wit: Three Works by Oscar Wilde for UC San Diego Extension's Creative Writing Certificate Program. She also teaches Reading Photographs: The Art of Seeing, Beyond Image: Using Photo with Other Media, Variations on Photographic Portraiture, and Visual Poetry: Ways of Seeing for the Photography: Images and Techniques Certificate Program.
Reneé draws on her passion for literature, photography, and history to inform her work, both in the studio and classroom. As lead artist for CoTA (Collaboration of Teachers and Artists), and photography and literature instructor at UC San Diego Extension and National University, she invites students to investigate their own ideologies of memory, history, and the establishment of identity, using the mediums of writing, photography, assemblage and installation art. Her photographs and assemblages are largely concerned with the intersection of literary, historic and mythic motifs and their present-day echoes. She enjoys collaborating with writers and, over the last few years, has recently begun creating photographic trailers for book releases. Classes at UCSD Extension include Visual Poetry: Ways of Seeing, Women and Madness, Beyond the Image: Using Photography with Other Media, Gender Identity and Literature, Variations on Photographic Portraiture, Glittering Wit: Three Works by Oscar Wilde, Reading Photographs: The Art of Seeing, and Ernest Hemingway: Titan of American Literature.
