New Essays on Hemingway''s Short Fiction

Ernest Hemingway is one of the most gifted, oft-taught, and frequently criticized authors of the short story in the English language. An introduction and four original scholarly essays here constitute a survey of Hemingway's career as a short story writer and offer an overview of practical problems involved in reading his work. Includes bibliography. 2 photos.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series editor's preface; 1. Introduction: Hemingway and the practical reader Paul Smith; 2. Reading 'Up in Michigan' Nancy R. Comley and Robert Scholes; 3. 'Now I Lay Me': Nick's strange monologue, Hemingway's powerful lyric, and the reader's disconcerting experience James Phelan; 4. Second growth: the ecology of loss in 'Fathers and Sons' Susan F. Beegel; 5. Re-placing Africa in 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro': the intersecting economies of capitalist-imperialism and Hemingway biography Debra A. Moddelmog; Notes on contributors; Selected bibliography.

Zusammenfassung

The introduction and four scholarly essays in this volume constitute an overview of Hemingway's career as a short story writer and offer an overview of practical problems involved in reading this work.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Dr. Paul Smith, Paul Smith
• Mitarbeit: Emory Elliot (Herausgeber), Paul Smith (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 28.05.1998
• EAN: 9780521556514
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55651-4
• Seiten: 156
• Serien: American Novel (Paperback); The American Novel
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; USA, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, American English, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form