The Gun and the Pen: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, and the Fiction of Mobilization
In this groundbreaking work of literary and historical scholarship, Keith Gandal shows that Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner were motivated not by their experiences of the horrors of war but rather by their failure to have those experiences.
In 1954, Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature for a body of work that includes 'The Sun Also Rises', 'A Farewell to Arms', and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'. This American expat is held as a stylistic innovator for his terse prose. Bloom's How to Write about Ernest Hemingway offers valuable suggestions for paper topics, clearly outlined strategies on how to write a strong essay, and an insightful introduction by Harold Bloom on writing about Hemingway. This volume is designed to help students develop their analytical writing skills and critical comprehension of the author and his major works.
In Art Matters, Robert Paul Lamb provides the definitive study of Ernest Hemingway's short story aesthetics. Lamb locates Hemingway's art in literary historical contexts and explains what he learned from earlier artists, including Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Cézanne, Henry James, Guy de Maupassant, Anton Chekhov, Stephen Crane, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound. Examining how Hemingway developed this inheritance, Lamb insightfully charts the evolution of the unique style and innovative techniques that would forever change the nature of short fiction.
Examines the work of Ernest Hemingway as one of the most influential writers in the English speaking world, considering the best of his work as a permanent part of the American mythology, while offering a wide range of critical views.
Added by: Cheramie | Karma: 275.78 | Fiction literature | 22 December 2009
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On Second Thoughts by Simon Brett
Fiction and humour writer Brett invents what might have been found in the imaginary wastepaper baskets of the famous and great from history. Things could have been very different if King Arthur had figured out the seating plan for a square table, if Picasso hadn't received the wrong prescription for his spectacles or if Ronald Reagan hadn't misspelled 'unclear' as 'nuclear' in his lost letter to Gorbachev
