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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819032503321

Titolo

A historical guide to Ernest Hemingway / / edited by Linda Wagner-Martin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000

ISBN

0-19-772449-3

1-280-52997-0

1-60256-294-6

1-4237-6005-0

0-19-972805-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

viii, 248 p. : ill

Collana

Historical guides to American authors

Altri autori (Persone)

Wagner-MartinLinda

Disciplina

813/.52

B

Soggetti

Literature and history - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-234)   and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961: A Brief Biography -- HEMINGWAY IN HIS TIME -- Eye and Heart: Hemingway's Education as a Naturalist -- The Fashion of Machismo -- Hemingway's Gender Training -- The Great Themes in Hemingway: Love, War, Wilderness, and Loss -- The Intertextual Hemingway -- Illustrated Chronology -- Bibliographical Essay: Lies, Damned Lies, and Hemingway Criticism -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Sommario/riassunto

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 The previously unpublished essays discuss biographical details of his personal and professional life.