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Reading and interpreting the works of Ernest Hemingway
Provides excerpts, quotes, and critical analysis of Hemingway's novels and short stories in the context of his tragic personal life.
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Fitzgerald-Wilson-Hemingway
In this study, Ronald Berman examines the work of the
critic/novelist Edmund Wilson and the art of F. Scott
Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway as they wrestled with the
problems of language, experience, perception and reality in the
\"age of jazz.\" By focusing specifically on aesthetics—the
ways these writers translated everyday reality into
language—Berman challenges and redefines many routinely
accepted ideas concerning the legacy of these authors.
Fitzgerald is generally thought of as a romantic, but Berman
shows that we need to expand the idea of Romanticism to include
its philosophy. Hemingway, widely viewed as a stylist who
captured experience by simplifying language, is revealed as
consciously demonstrating reality's resistance to language.
Between these two renowned writers stands Wilson, who is
critically influenced by Alfred North Whitehead, as well as
Dewey, James, Santayana, and Freud. By patiently mapping the
correctness of these philosophers, historians, literary critics
and writers, Berman aims to open a gateway into the era. This
work should be of interest to scholars of American literature,
philosophy and aesthetics; to academic libraries; to students
of intellectual history; and to general readers interested in
Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Wilson.
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Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow
It was the glittering intellectual world of 1920s Paris expatriates in which Pauline Pfeiffer, a writer for Vogue, met Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley among a circle of friends that included Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and Dorothy Parker. Pauline grew close to Hadley but eventually forged a stronger bond with Hemingway himself; with her stylish looks and dedication to Hemingway's writing, Pauline became the source of \"unbelievable happiness\" for Hemingway and, by 1927, his second wife. Pauline was her husband's best editor and critic, and her wealthy family provided moral and financial support, including the conversion of an old barn to a dedicated writing studio at the family home in Piggott, Arkansas. The marriage lasted thirteen years, some of Hemingway's most productive, and the couple had two children. But the \"unbelievable happiness\" met with \"final sorrow,\" as Hemingway wrote, and Pauline would be the second of Hemingway's four wives.Unbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrowpaints a full picture of Pauline and the role she played in Ernest Hemingway's becoming one of our greatest literary figures.
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Hemingway and Italy
\"A true gift for Hemingway aficionados! With previously unpublished work by Hemingway, memories of the writer by those who knew him, and essays by an outstanding international team of scholars, this collection deepens our understanding of Hemingway's relationship to a country that he loved and that was central to his fiction.\"-Carl P. Eby, author ofHemingway's Fetishism: Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of Manhood \"These extremely powerful essays bring a richer and more cosmopolitan understanding of the Italian underpinnings of Hemingway's writing.\"-Linda Patterson Miller, editor ofLetters from the Lost Generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and Friends \"A useful experience for readers. Its blending of biography and textual study is perfect.\"-Linda Wagner-Martin, editor ofHemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism From his World War I service in Italy through his transformational return visits during the decades that followed, Ernest Hemingway's Italian experiences were fundamental to his artistic development.Hemingway and Italy offers essays from top scholars, exciting new voices, and people who knew Hemingway during his Italian days, examining how his adopted homeland shaped his writing and his legacy. The collection addresses Hemingway's many Italys-the terrain and people he encountered during his life and the country he transposed into his fiction. Contributors analyze Hemingway's Italian works, includingA Farewell to Arms, Across the River and into the Trees,lesser-known short stories, fables, and even a previously unpublished Hemingway sketch, \"Torcello Piece.\" The essays provide fresh insights on Hemingway's Italian life, career, and imagination.
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway’s groundbreaking prose style and examination of timeless themes made him one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. Yet in
Ernest Hemingway: Thought in Action , Mark Cirino observes, “Literary criticism has accused Hemingway of many things but thinking too deeply is not one of them.” Although much has been written about the author’s love of action—hunting, fishing, drinking, bullfighting, boxing, travel, and the moveable feast—Cirino looks at Hemingway’s focus on the modern mind, paralleling the interest in consciousness of such predecessors and contemporaries as Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, and Henry James. Hemingway, Cirino demonstrates, probes the ways his character’s minds respond when placed in urgent situations or when damaged by past traumas. In Cirino’s analysis of Hemingway’s work through this lens—including such celebrated classics as
A Farewell to Arms ,
The Old Man and the Sea , and “Big Two-Hearted River” and less-appreciated works including
Islands in the Stream and “Because I Think Deeper”—an entirely different Hemingway hero emerges: intelligent, introspective, and ruminative.
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Soldiers Once and Still
As the world enters a new century, as it embarks on new wars and sees new developments in the waging of war, reconsiderations of the last century's legacy of warfare are necessary to our understanding of the current world order. InSoldiers Once and Still, Alex Vernon looks back through the twentieth century in order to confront issues of self and community in veterans' literature, exploring how war and the military have shaped the identities of Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien, three of the twentieth century's most respected authors. Vernon specifically explores the various ways war and the military, through both cultural and personal experience, have affected social and gender identities and dynamics in each author's work.Hemingway, Salter, and O'Brien form the core ofSoldiers Once and Stillbecause each represents a different warring generation of twentieth-century America: World War I with Hemingway, World War II and Korea with Salter, and Vietnam with O'Brien. Each author also represents a different literary voice of the twentieth century, from modern to mid-century to postmodern, and each presents a different battlefield experience: Hemingway as noncombatant, Salter as air force fighter pilot, and O'Brien as army grunt.War's pervasive influence on the individual means that, for veterans-turned-writers like Hemingway, Salter, and O'Brien, the war experience infiltrates their entire body of writing-their works can be seen not only as war literature but also as veterans' literature. As such, their entire postwar oeuvre, regardless of whether an individual work explicitly addresses the war or the military, is open to Vernon's exploration of war, society, gender, and literary history.Vernon's own experiences as a soldier, a veteran, a writer, and a critic inform this enlightening critique of American literature, offering students and scholars of American literature and war studies an invaluable tool for understanding war's effects on the veteran writer and his society.
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