Hemingway''s Geographies - Intimacy, Materiality, and Memory

Zusatztext "A cultural geography of Hemingway's best-known work! Laura Godfrey's Hemingway's Geographies explores how the human and natural histories of places in his fiction permeate the memories and experiences of his characters and back again. With theoretical savvy! surprising insights drawn from several disciplines! and warm personal touches! Godfrey charts Hemingway's creation of place in the mind of the reader. If Hemingway is the principal poet of place in American literature! Godfrey is his most adept cartographer. A welcome and essential addition to the Hemingway bookshelf." - Susan F. Beegel! Editor Emerita! The Hemingway Review "Laura Godfrey's book! while illuminating Hemingway's notion of place! becomes an indispensable broader consideration of Hemingway's entire career. This book is a nimble! affectionate! gracefully written investigation into Hemingway's sense of place! the geography that guided his art. Godfrey blends the erudition of a scholar with the infectious enthusiasm of a fan. It's a book to learn from; but better than that! it's a book to enjoy." - Mark Cirino! Associate Professor of English! University of Evansville! USA Informationen zum Autor Laura Gruber Godfrey is Assistant Chair of the Department of English and Humanities at North Idaho College, USA. She has published widely on American literature and on Hemingway in journals such as Western American Literature , Arizona Quarterly , Critique , and The Hemingway Review as well as in the edited collections Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism , Ernest Hemingway and the Geography of Memory , and Teaching Hemingway and the Natural World .  Klappentext This book combines close literary analysis withrecent research on culture and the spaces humans inhabit. By examining a widerange of Hemingway’s writing, including excerpts from his letters; shortstories such as “Big Two-Hearted River” and “On the Quai at Smyrna”; theposthumously-published “The Last Good Country” and A Moveable Feast ; and the novels The Sun Also Rises and AFarewell To Arms , Laura Gruber Godfrey shows how characters’ immersions inplace are essential to Hemingway’s fiction. Revising conventional views ofHemingway’s various landscapes as literary symbols or external settings foraction, Godfrey shows that, for Hemingway, humans and geography are oftencoextensive and interdependent.  Zusammenfassung This book draws on the tools of literary analysis and culturalgeography to investigate Ernest Hemingway's sophisticated construction ofphysical environments. In doing so, Laura Gruber Godfrey revises conventional approachesto Hemingway’s literary landscapes and provides insight about his fictionalcharacters and his readers alike. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction:  Ernest Hemingway’s Intimate Geographies.- Hemingway, the Preservation Impulse, and Cultural Geography.- The Illusion of Remembered Places.- The Radiance of Objects in Place.- Negotiating the Terrain of Conflict.- Afterword.- Works Cited. ...

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Introduction:  Ernest Hemingway's Intimate Geographies.- Hemingway, the Preservation Impulse, and Cultural Geography.- The Illusion of Remembered Places.- The Radiance of Objects in Place.- Negotiating the Terrain of Conflict.- Afterword.- Works Cited.

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"A cultural geography of Hemingway's best-known work, Laura Godfrey's Hemingway's Geographies explores how the human and natural histories of places in his fiction permeate the memories and experiences of his characters and back again. With theoretical savvy, surprising insights drawn from several disciplines, and warm personal touches, Godfrey charts Hemingway's creation of place in the mind of the reader. If Hemingway is the principal poet of place in American literature, Godfrey is his most adept cartographer. A welcome and essential addition to the Hemingway bookshelf." - Susan F. Beegel, Editor Emerita, The Hemingway Review
"Laura Godfrey's book, while illuminating Hemingway's notion of place, becomes an indispensable broader consideration of Hemingway's entire career. This book is a nimble, affectionate, gracefully written investigation into Hemingway's sense of place, the geography that guided his art. Godfrey blends the erudition of a scholar with the infectious enthusiasm of a fan. It's a book to learn from; but better than that, it's a book to enjoy." - Mark Cirino, Associate Professor of English, University of Evansville, USA

Product details

• Authors: Laura Gruber Godfrey, Laura Gruber Godfrey
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2016
• EAN: 9781137596741
• ISBN: 978-1-137-59674-1
• No. of pages: 205
• Series: Springer Palgrave Macmillan; Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies; Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies