# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Guest Lecture by Prof. Harold Hellwig (Idaho State University)
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 02:15 pm – Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 03:45 pm
- **Event Description**: “Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner: Modernism and the Uncertainty of Values”

The modernist novels of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner all focus on the question of identity in the twentieth century as expatriates to their own American culture. Hemingway responded to his Italian war experience, Fitzgerald to the idea of capitalism in his time, and Faulkner to his growing disenchantment with the Southern Gothic. An expatriate (for the American) is someone who disavows a native culture in favor of something new. Yet only Hemingway found his identity as an expatriate; the other two writing from an American perspective and not really responding to their European experiences. Though all three writers do not show the same sense of recovery from chaos and disorder that one usually finds in American literature before 1920 (for example, the social order remains somehow intact after the conflicts in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, 1850, or The Marble Faun, 1860). They do not replicate the genteel world of William Dean Howells. At the same time, all three describe an America devoid of values that might serve as forms of salvation from an uncertain, modern world. 

Their different writing styles show their experimental approaches to the uncertainties that their characters face: Hemingway’s terse and emotionless prose in A Farewell to Arms (1929), Fitzgerald symbolic version of realism in The Great Gatsby (1925), and Faulkner’s pseudo stream of consciousness in The Sound and the Fury (1929). These are very different novels, but they all suggest the lapses of value that the American vision suggested before the twentieth century. Penelope Vita-Finzi writes about an earlier expatriate who returned to American themes: “Edith Wharton’s fiction about the artist from 1899 until the end of her life explores … the struggle between individual will and social codes; the need to balance the inner world of the imagination with the actual world; the obligation to have absolute standards of taste in social groups swayed by fashion; the necessity for order in private lives which requires compromise” (Edith Wharton and the Art of Fiction, 126.). Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Faulkner, by contrast, struggled with having any “standards of taste” in worlds devoid of meaning, rendering their concepts of identity uncertain and their values adrift. 

The talk will review themes of sexual identity, personal identity, the disintegration of moral stability, and also the trauma of war (Hemingway), the trauma of family (Faulkner), and the trauma of broken codes (Fitzgerald) in relation to modernism’s experimental modes of narrative.
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- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Bamberg
- **state**: BY
- **country**: Germany
- **location**: An der Universität 5, 96047 Bamberg, Deutschland
- **lat**: 49.89381
- **long**: 10.88693
- **full address**: An der Universität 5, 96047 Bamberg, Deutschland, An der Universität 5, 96047 Bamberg, Deutschland, Bamberg, Germany

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- **organizer**: Amerikanistik Bamberg (https://allevents.in/org/amerikanistik-bamberg/27115420)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 20 Nov, 2025 at 02:15 pm
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