Letter to the Editor

Objects to the exorbitant fees Scribner’s and Macmillan charge for permission to quote from the published works of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Suggests that fees suppress scholarly investigation into the authors’ writings

Ernest Hemingway

Messent draws on contemporary theory and recent scholarship to examine the body of Hemingway’s published writing. Analyzes style in “Now I Lay Me” considering Georg Lukac’s essay “Narrate or Describe?” in Writer and Critic and Other Essays (1936) to reveal Hemingway’s concerns with modernity. Discusses the problematic representation of self in “A Way You’ll Never Be,” The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, To Have and Have Not, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and Across the River and into the Trees. Analyzes the instability of gender roles and sexuality in “Hills Like White Elephants,” A Farwell to Arms and The Garden of Eden. Geography, particularly America, Spain, and Africa, is covered in his treatment of the author’s sense of literary place in Death in the Afternoon, The Dangerous Summer, and “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.” Concludes with a brief commentary on A Moveable Feast as Hemingway’s attempt to recreate his former writerly identity while unconsciously exposing his decline

Liminality, Repetition, and Trauma in Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted River and Other Nick Adams Stories

Drawing on trauma theory, Messent examines the effects of trauma on the scarred Nick Adams in several stories, including “Big Two-Hearted River, “Now I Lay Me,” “Fathers and Sons,” and “A Way You’ll Never Be.” Despite the damage incurred, Messent argues that there is hope for the traumatized Hemingway hero, as evidenced by Cantwell’s successful return to the site of his injury in Across the River and into the Trees

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Slippery Stuff: The Construction of Character in \u3cem\u3eThe Sun Also Rises\u3c/em\u3e

Structuralist approach relying on the theories of Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan to discuss the construction of character in relation to action and speech. Argues that Jake, Brett, and others, despite individual inconsistency and self-division, “blur into one another” when analyzed together. Concludes that the “notion of autonomous individuality is a myth.

Character Construction and Agency: Teaching Hemingway’s A Way You’ll Never Be

Structuralist approach empowering students to critically analyze Hemingway’s construction of Nick Adams by drawing on Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan’s characterization of action schema found in Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics (1983). Brings in examples from The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and Across the River and into the Trees to further illustrate Rimmon-Kenan’s approach

The Real Thing ? Representing the Bullfight and Spain in \u3cem\u3eDeath in the Afternoon\u3c/em\u3e

Takes issue with Hemingway’s idealized version of Spain, interrogating the author’s claims of authenticity against the complexity of cultural translation. Discusses Hemingway’s status as an outsider in Spain, and investigates constructions of Spanish and American national culture, as well as the economic and cultural impacts of tourism

Food and Drink

Argues that food and drink are central to Hemingway’s life and writing, with the theme of consumption conveying the geographical and cultural variety of the author’s work along with his deep concern for cultural and domestic belonging within a precarious modern world. Draws on “Wine of Wyoming,” “Big Two-Hearted River,” and Death in the Afternoon

Ernest Hemingway

Overview of Hemingway’s life and writing, addressing his ultra-masculine persona and treatment of gender and race in his major works. Discusses the influence of Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein on Hemingway’s innovative style and concludes with an examination of his relationship with the unspoiled America of his youth, later transnational experiences, and the writings associated with these geographical areas. Messent suggests that Hemingway’s travels were motivated by a desire for refuge from the “global contamination” of modernization and its effects, casting the author as an important figure in contemporary transnational literary studies