期刊名称：Teaching American Literature : A Journal of Theory and Practice
电子版ISSN：2150-3974
出版年度：2013
卷号：6
期号：2
页码：122-131
出版社：Teaching American Literature
摘要：In teaching the "The White Horses of Vienna" (1935), perhaps Boyle's most anthologized text, I emphasize the modernist elements in that short story, and I pair it with short stories by Hemingway in order to put into relief Boyle's own modernist aesthetics in conjunction with realism. Students enrolled in my 300-level modern and contemporary American literature course explore formulations of and responses to modernism, modernity, and contemporary issues by a diverse array of authors, including some of the most well-known (read: canonical) writers in American and transatlantic history. They become familiar with artistic movements, particularly in regard to the American tradition. The goals of this course are met when students are proficient in their abilities to analyze and discuss literature in sophisticated ways and to contextualize their own and the primary writers' responses to literary history and tradition, modernity, and the modern world. In this vein, my students approach Boyle's short story as one that embodies the modernist moment, and they consider how this text can be opened up by modernist manifestos. In my article, I will underscore the successful strategies my students use in interpreting work by Boyle, specifically in connection with how they approach modernist texts and identity politics in her award-winning short story
