New Essays on Hemingway's Short Fiction [Paperback]

A collection of essays on Hemingway's short stories.Ernest Hemingway is one of the most gifted, oft-taught, and frequently criticized authors of the short story in the English language. The introduction and four original scholarly essays in this volume constitute an overview of Hemingway's career as a short story writer and offer an overview of practical problems involved in reading this work. Also included is a selected bibliography designed to direct readers to the most valable resources for the study of Hemingway's short fiction.Ernest Hemingway is one of the most gifted, oft-taught, and frequently criticized authors of the short story in the English language. The introduction and four original scholarly essays in this volume constitute an overview of Hemingway's career as a short story writer and offer an overview of practical problems involved in reading this work. Also included is a selected bibliography designed to direct readers to the most valable resources for the study of Hemingway's short fiction.Ernest Hemingway is one of the most gifted, oft-taught, and frequently criticized authors of the short story in the English language. The introduction and four original scholarly essays in this volume constitute an survey of Hemingway's career as a short story writer and offer an overview of practical problems involved in reading his work. Also included is a selected bibliography designed to direct readers to the most valuable resources for the study of Hemingway's short fiction.Series editor's preface; 1. Introduction: Hemingway and the practical reader Paul Smith; 2. Reading 'Up in Michigan' Nancy R. Comley and Robert Scholes; 3. 'Now I Lay Me': Nick's strange monologue, Hemingway's powerful lyric, and the reader's disconcerting experience James Phelan; 4. Second growth: the ecology of loss in 'Fathers and Sons' Susan F. Beegel; 5. Re-placing Africa in 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro': the intersecting economies of capitalist-imperialism and Hemingway biography DlÓß