Ernest Hemingway
A wide-ranging re-reading of Hemingway's work which makes selective use of contemporary theory to explore four key areas. An analysis of Hemingway's impressionistic style shows how it operates as a response to the static and harmful conditions of modernit
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MODERN NOVEliSTS Published titles SAUL BELLOW Peter Hyland ALBERT CAMUS Philip Thody FYODOR DOS10EVSKY Peter Conradi WILUAM FAULKNER David Dowling GUSTAVEFLAUBERT DavidRoe E. M. FORSTER Norman Page ANDRE GIDE David Walker WILUAM GOLDING James Gindin GRAHAM GREENE Neil McEwan ERNEST HEMINGWAY Peter Messent CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Stephen Wade HENRY JAMES Alan BeHringer JAMES JOYCE Richard Brown D. H. LAWRENCE G. M. Hyde ROSAMOND LEHMANN Judy Simons DORIS LESSING Ruth Whittaker MALCOLM LOWRY Tony Bareham THOMAS MANN Martin Travers GEORGE ORWELL Valerie Meyers ANTHONY POWELL Neil McEwan MARCEL PROUST Philip Thody BARBARA PYM Michael Cotsell JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Philip Thody SIX WOMEN NOVEUSTS Menyn Williams MURIEL SPARK Norman Page JOHN UPDIKE Judie Newman EVELYN WAUGH Jacqueline McDonnell H. G. WELLS Michael Draper VIRGINIA WOOLF Edward Bishop
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MODERN NOVELISTS
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Peter Messent
Palgrave Macmillan
UK
ISBN 978-1-349-22324-4 (eBook) ISBN 978-0-333-51920-2 DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-22324-4 © Peter Messent 1992 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1992 978-0-333-51919-6 All rights reserved. For information, write: Scholarly and Reference Division, St. Martin's Press, Inc., 175 Fifth Avenue New York. N.Y. 10010 First published in the United States of America in 1992 ISBN 978-0-312-08126-3 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Messent, Peter B. Ernest Hemingway I Peter Messent p. cm.-(Modem novelists) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-312-08126-3 1. Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961-Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. II. Series. PS3515. E37Z74177 1992 92-9005 813'.52-dc20 CIP
Contents Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations General Editar's Preface 1 2 3 4 5
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Introduction Style: Personal Impressions The Status of the Subject Gender Role and Sexuality Geographies, Fictional and Non-fictional: America, Spain, Africa Coda: A Maveable Feast
124 164
Notes Select Bibliography Index
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Acknowledgements First, I acknowledge my debt to Godfrey Keams, my tutor when I was an undergraduate at Manchester, who first stimulated my enthusiasm for Hemingway. Both the encouragement he gave me then, and his friendship in the years since, have been of real importance to me. I gave versions of several chapters in this book to the staff-postgraduate research group in my department, American and Canadian Studies, at Nottingham. The comments I received helped me greatly as I moved toward my final version. My thanks to all the members of that group. Three of them helped even more. Chris Gair, Richard King and Dav
