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Ernest Hemingway: Challenged, Censored, Banned.
Harris, Heather, Theatre and Editing, Writing and Media
Despite his Pulitzer and the Nobel Prize, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls rank among the top one-hundred challenged and banned American classics. Hemingway has experienced perhaps the greatest range of censoring among American writers, challenges collecting under broad rubrics--political, religious, sexual, social: The Sun Also Rises,1926 (sex, alcohol, decadence); A Farewell to Arms, 1929 (banned in Boston for politics, sex, language); To Have...
Show moreDespite his Pulitzer and the Nobel Prize, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls rank among the top one-hundred challenged and banned American classics. Hemingway has experienced perhaps the greatest range of censoring among American writers, challenges collecting under broad rubrics--political, religious, sexual, social: The Sun Also Rises,1926 (sex, alcohol, decadence); A Farewell to Arms, 1929 (banned in Boston for politics, sex, language); To Have and Have Not, 1937 (only book banned in America [Detroit] in 1938--for immoralities, at the instigation of Catholic church); For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1941 (denied the Pulitzer Prize for political, sexual, and language issues). Censoring also affected Hemingway's short stories: the publisher of Hemingway's first story collection (In Our Time, 1925) pulled "Up in Michigan" for sexual explicitness; "Scott" became "Julian" in "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936), following Scott Fitzgerald's protest of the unmistakable allusion in "Scott." Challenging and banning Ernest Hemingway's fiction remind an aware reader of the threat inherent in all book-banning to the Constitutional guarantees of free speech and expression. This Hemingway study will particularly emphasize assessments of Hemingway--the writer and the man--suggested by his short stories selected (also "telling," stories not selected) by major publishers for anthologies widely adopted by public schools, 1930s-1970s—i.e., from the height of Hemingway's reputation in his lifetime through the first generation following his death.
Gender and Media Studies.
Cunningham, Kelley Suzette, English
From Dolly Parton to Taylor Swift, country music encompasses a wide range of artists with a variety of unique traits. Public persona plays a large role in the marketing of country music, affecting how audiences respond and relate to artists. Through the citation and analysis of recent news articles, I interpreted the media's response to current country artists relating to their public personas and social media presences. My process consisted of collecting articles from LexisNexis as well as...
Show moreFrom Dolly Parton to Taylor Swift, country music encompasses a wide range of artists with a variety of unique traits. Public persona plays a large role in the marketing of country music, affecting how audiences respond and relate to artists. Through the citation and analysis of recent news articles, I interpreted the media's response to current country artists relating to their public personas and social media presences. My process consisted of collecting articles from LexisNexis as well as the websites of popular online news sources. The articles, ranging from 2013 to early 2015, were centered around Dolly Parton and her over 60-year-long career, as well as newer country artists such as Taylor Swift, Blake Shelton, Kenny Chesney, and Florida-Georgia Line. The majority of articles focused on each artist's specific persona, and how these personas manifest on the internet, television, and live performance. However, each recent article in the database featuring the artists was considered, and I was able to identify a variety of contemporary music industry topics, many of which emerged throughout research process. For example, the internet's effect on the music industry was a subject that kept appearing. Not only does the internet offer streaming services that make music more accessible than ever, but it alters the entire artist-audience dynamic by making once-distant stars more relatable. The internet has also encouraged blending with other genres such as pop and hip-hop,creating new sub-genres and transforming artists into completely unique celebrity personalities.
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