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Student Companion to Ernest Hemingway
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Lisa Tyler
ISBN: 0-313-31056-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-31056-0
200 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 9/30/2001
List Price: $46.95 (UK Sterling Price: £32.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: The fully-lived, yet tragically ended life of Ernest Hemingway has attracted nearly as much attention as his extensive canon of writings. This critical study introduces students to both the man and his fiction, exploring how Hemingway confronted in his own life the same moral issues that would later create thematic conflicts for the characters in his novels. In addition to the biographical chapter which focuses on the pivotal events in Hemingway's personal life, a literary heritage chapter overviews his professional developments, relating his distinctive style to his early years as a journalist. With clear concise analysis, students are guided through all of Hemingway's major works including The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Full chapters are also devoted to examining his collections of short fiction, the African Stories, and the posthumous works.

Each chapter carefully examines the major literary components of Hemingway's fiction with plot synopsis, analysis of character development, themes, settings, historical context, and stylistic features. Alternate critical readings are also given for each of the full length works. An extensive bibliography citing all of Hemingway's writings as well as biographical sources, general criticism, and contemporary reviews will help students understand the scope of Hemingway's contributions to American Literature.
Table of Contents:
  • The Life of Ernest Hemingway
    Hemingway's Literary Heritage
    In Our Time (1925)
    The Sun Also Rises (1926)
    A Farewell to Arms (1929)
    The Later Short Fiction: Men without Women (1927) and Winner Take Nothing (1933)
    The African Stories
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
    The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
    The Posthumous Works: A Movable Feast (1964), Islands in the Stream (1970), and The Garden of Eden (1986)
    Selected Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: LISA TYLER is Associate Professor of English at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio./e She has published essays on Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Marsha Norman, and Virginia Woolf. In addition to her work on Ernest Hemingway, her current research interests include the writings of Anne Beattie and Joyce Carol Oates, crisis communication, and the healing power of writing about traumatic events.
LCC Class: 813
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