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Historical Guide to Ernest Hemingway - POD TITLE

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Zusatztext Historical Guides to American Authors: The new Historical Guides series is an interdisciplinary, historically sensitive series that combines close attention to the United States' most widely read and studied authors with a strong sense of time, place, and history. Placing each writer in the context of the vibrant relationship between literature and society, volumes in the series contain historical essays written on subjects of contemporary social, political, and cultural relevance. They also includes a capsule biography and dual chronology detailing important cultural events as they coincided with the author's life and works, while photographs and illustrations of the period capture the flavor of the author's time and milieu. Accessible to all readers of American fiction, while providing insights useful to teachers and scholars, the volumes offer a complete and rounded picture of each author in his or her America. Informationen zum Autor Linda Wagner-Martin is Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the President of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society and has authored and edited numerous books. Klappentext The 1999 Hemingway centennial marks the perfect time for the reevaluation of his position as America's premier modernist writer. These essays, all written specially for this collection, plumb unexplored historical details of Hemingway's life to illuminate new and often unexpected dimensions of the force of his literary accomplishment. Discussing biographical details of his personal and professional life along with the subtleties of his character, the text includes a number of fascinating photos and images. Zusammenfassung The 1999 centennial of Ernest Hemingway's birth marks a time for the re-evaluation of his position as America's premier modernist writer. The previously unpublished essays discuss biographical details of his personal and professional life as well as describe the subtleties of his character. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chronologies--of Hemingway's Life and of the Times Hemingway in His Time Eye and Heart: Ernest Hemingway's Education as a Naturalist The Fashion of Machismo Re-Reading Hemingway and Gender Love, War, Wilderness, and Loss: The Great Themes in Hemingway The Inter-Textual Hemingway Lies, Damned Lies, and Hemingway Criticism: Bibliographical Commentary and Checklist Index ...

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