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.

List of contents

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Paul Smith, Paul Smith
• Assisted by: Emory Elliot (Editor), Paul Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.05.1998
• EAN: 9780521556514
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55651-4
• No. of pages: 156
• Series: American Novel (Paperback); The American Novel
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; 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