Current bibliography.

Larson, Kelli A.

[The current bibliography aspires to include all serious contributions to Hemingway scholarship. Given the substantial quantity of significant critical work appearing on Hemingway's life and writings annually, inconsequential items from the popular press have been omitted to facilitate the distinction of important developments and trends in the field. Annotations for articles appearing in The Hemingway Review have been omitted due to the immediate availability of abstracts introducing each issue. Kelli Larson welcomes your assistance in keeping this feature current. Please send reprints, clippings, and photocopies of articles, as well as notices of new books, directly to Larson at the University of St. Thomas, 333 JRC, 2115 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105-1096. E-Mail: KaLarsonl@stthomas.edu.]

BOOKS

Bharadwaj, Apoorva. The Narcissism Conundrum: Mapping the Mindscape of Ernest Hemingway Through an Enquiry into His Epistolary and Literary Corpus. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2013. [Psycho-biographical reading of EH's major protagonists as extensions of the author to reveal the extent of EH's obsessive narcissistic self-projection across his oeuvre. Bharadwaj charts EH's self-fictionalization in three phases: childhood, youth, and twilight years, drawing numerous comparisons between EH and his heroes. Concludes that EH's suicide resulted from his inability to maintain the popular myth of the EH hero over time. Includes analyses of SAR, FTA, FWBT, ARIT, IIS, and OMS.]

Bryfonski, Dedria, ed. Death in Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (Social Issues in Literature Series). Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven P, 2014. [Collection of reprinted essays by such well known EH scholars as William E. Cain and A.E. Hotchner. Broken into three sections, the volume opens with a biographical overview of EH's life and career, focusing on his physical and psychological decline. Section two provides critical analyses of the novel's themes of death, heroism, and environmentalism. The volume closes with contemporary perspectives on aging and death. Includes a chronology and bibliography of additional readings on EH, death, and dying.]

Florczyk, Steven. Hemingway, the Red Cross, and the Great War. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2014. [Detailed account of EH's volunteer ambulance service at the Italian front during WWI. Florczyk examines the major influence EH s early involvement with the Red Cross had on his later writings about Italy and the Great War, including his Toronto Star journalism, iot, 70T, SAR, FTA, ARIT, and elsewhere. Draws on established biography along with primary materials such as the diary and correspondence of the unit's commanding officer, official government documents, and contemporaneous newspaper accounts published by volunteers at the front. Includes a helpful map of the Italian theater of war, numerous black-and-white photographs of EH and the Red Cross, and images of newspaper articles, letters, and ambulance reports. Extensive notes and bibliography.]

Haugen, David, and Susan Musser, eds. War in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms (Social Issues in Literature Series). Farmington Hills, MI: Green-haven P, 2014. [Collection of reprinted essays by such well known EH scholars as Robert W. Lewis, Robert E. Gajdusek, and Lawrence R. Broer. Broken into three sections, the volume opens with a biographical overview of EH's life and career, including the inception, publication, and critical reception of FTA. Section two provides critical analyses of the novel's themes of violence, masculinity, heroism, and religion. The volume closes with contemporary perspectives on war and death. Includes a chronology and bibliography of additional readings on Hemingway and war.]

Hays, Peter L. Fifty Years of Hemingway Criticism. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow P, 2014. [Collection of mostly previously published essays spanning the years 1966 through 2013 and arranged by topic. Includes seven new essays. See annotations below.]

Pp. 3-10: "Hemingway on Courage." [Calls for a reevaluation of the popular conception of bravery in EH's fiction, pointing to contradictory notions of macho courage found in FTA, FWBT, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," "The Capital of the World" and elsewhere. Hays suggests that courage for EH has more to do with maintaining one's dignity in the face of obstacles than charging into battle.]

Pp. 27-34: "Hemingway, James Bond, and Andy Warhol." [Examines EH's inclusion of facts and brand name objects in his writing to authentically ground his fiction in reality and promote his carefully crafted image as ma cho adventurer and world traveler, an image that eventually eclipsed him.]

Pp. 53-58: "Wright, Cezanne, and Hemingway." [Influence study focused on the impact of Cezanne's painting and Frank Lloyd Wrights architecture on the development of EH's simplistic modernist aesthetic. Discusses their shared organic approach, subject matter, and basic form. Frequent references to MF.]

Pp. 59-65: "Hemingway, PTSD, and Clinical Depression." [Suggests that EH's inherited depression overlapped with his war-induced PTSD. Hays locates numerous examples of the resulting condition in "Now I Lay Me," "Soldier's Home," "Big Two-Hearted River," FTA, and elsewhere.]

Pp. 207-11: "Teaching 'Indian Camp."' [Pedagogical approach covering issues of initiation, racism, and gender found in the story.]

Pp. 215-19: "Hemingway's Playboy Interviews: Are They Genuine?" [Recounts his efforts to determine the authenticity of the 1963 and 1964 interviews. Hays, calling into question their subject matter, sentence structure, and vocabulary, concludes they are fakes.]

Pp. 221-23: "Hemingway's Puzzles." [On the numerous ambiguities found in EH's fiction, including how many Nick Adamses exist and when and where Jake met Brett in SAR.]

Nickel, Matthew C. Hemingway's Dark Night: Catholic Influences and Intertextualities in the Work of Ernest Hemingway. Wickford, RI: New Street Communications, 2013. [Critical study of EH's conversion and lifelong practice of Catholicism and the influence of Catholicism on his major works of fiction. Nickel provides a close reading of IOT, SAR, FTA, FWBT, ARIT, OMS, "The Gambler, The Nun and the Radio," "A Natural History of the Dead," "Now I Lay Me," and others works within their geographical and historical contexts to reveal patterns of spiritual ritual, sacrament, and pilgrimage. Draws on unpublished letters as well as the writings of Dante, Eliot, and Baudelaire in his analysis of EH's religious vision.]

Sindelar, Nancy W. Influencing Hemingway: People and Places That Shaped His Life and Work. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. [Biography covering familiar elements of EH's life and literary accomplishments, beginning with his birth in Oak Park and ending with his death in Ketchum. Sindelar organizes chapters around the places EH lived, the people he knew there, and the writing he accomplished during that stage of his life. Discusses the influence of his parents, wives, and mentors such as Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. Includes numerous black-and-white photo graphs and a chronology of the EH's life.]

Vaill, Amanda. Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, and Death in the Spanish Civil War. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. [Vaill provides a detailed account of the politics, propaganda, and horrors of the Spanish Civil War through the perspective of the intersecting lives and journalistic experiences of three larger-than-life couples: EH and Martha Gellhorn, Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, and Arturo Barea and lisa Kulcsar. Draws on correspondence, diaries, biographies, official documents, and histories to meticulously reconstruct the era, covering EH's desire to jumpstart his stalled career, the dangers of his warfront reporting, and turbulent romance with Gellhorn. Includes a chronology, maps, and list of primary people. Extensive notes and helpful index.]

ESSAYS

Adkins, Alyssa C., Maureen Harrington, Annemarie Thompson, and Carolyn Wadle. "Current Bibliography." The Hemingway Review 33.2 (Spring 2014): 165-81.

Anderson, David L. "Hemingway's Early Education in the Short Story: A Bibliographic Essay on Brander Matthews and Twenty Volumes of Stories at Windemere." The Hemingway Review 33.2 (Spring 2014): 48-65.

Balaev, Michelle. "Language's Limits and a Doubtful Nature: Ernest Hemingway's 'Big Two-Hearted River' and Friedrich Nietzsche's Foreign Language." The Hemingway Review 33.2 (Spring 2014): 107-18.

Baxter, John. The Golden Moments of Paris: A Guide to the Paris of the 1920s. New York: Museyon, 2014.

Pp. 68-75: "Where the 20th Century Was: Gertrude Stein and Her Salon." [Covers EH's turbulent relationship with Stein.]

Pp. 194-201: "The Heavyweight Champion of Montparnasse: Hemingway's Knockout." [Relates the well known details of EH's 1929 boxing bout with Morley Callaghan in which EH was knocked to the ground.]

Pp. 238-45: "Latin Quarter, St. Germain and Odeon Walk: Ernest Hemingway in Paris." [Walking tour of EH's Parisian homes and haunts, including commentary on the important places and people of the era.]

Beegel, Susan F. "Love in the Time of Influenza: Hemingway and the 1918 Pandemic." In War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings. Eds. Steve Paul, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2014. 36-52. [Socio-historical study tracing the devastating impact of the 1918 flu pandemic on EH's wartime experience, romance with Agnes von Kurowsky, family at home in Oak Park, and the conclusion of FTA. Briefly mentions "A Natural History of the Dead" and an untitled short story emphasizing the violent and humiliating effects accompanying this natural form of death.]

Blazek, William. "All Quiet on the Midwestern Front: 'Soldier's Home."' In War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings. Eds. Steve Paul, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2014. 169-89. [Close reading of Krebs's postwar exclusion from family and community due to his violent and licentious combat experience, both dangerous threats to insulted Midwestern America. Draws on Henry's execution of the Italian sergeant in FTA to illustrate the lasting effects of wartime experience on returning soldiers seeking a "separate peace."

Bowie, Thomas G" Jr. "The Need for Narrative in Our Time: Hemingway's 'Tragic Adventure' and Regis University's Stories from Wartime." In War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings. Eds. Steve Paul, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2014. 221-41. [Connects real life accounts of veterans and their lifelong quest to find meaning in their war experiences to the disparate vignettes and stories of IOT. Bowie rejects critical arguments that seek to neatly unify the narrative structure of IOT, arguing that the text's confusions are necessary in understanding the multifaceted, uncertain, and individualized nature of war.]

Brandt, Kenneth K. and Alicia Mischa Renfroe. "Intent and Culpability: A Legal Review of the Shooting in 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber.'" The Hemingway Review 33.2 (Spring 2014): 8-29.

Broer, Lawrence. "Dangerous Families: A Midwestern Exorcism." In War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings. Eds. Steve Paul, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2014. 260-85. [Autobiographical study of the Nick Adams stories as EH's artistic response to the psychic traumas he experienced during childhood at the hands of his cold and insensitive parents. Broer concludes that in GOE, EH finally achieves the self-critical introspection necessary to admit his lifelong preoccupation with demonizing his mother and rationalizing his father's failings, a courageous feat of consciousness allowing him to finally heal.]

Butler, Robert Olen. "Cinema of the Mind." Journal of the Short Story in English 69 (Autumn 2012): 21-33. [Brief discussion of two scenes from "Cat in the Rain" as examples of cinematic montage. Reprinted from Where You Dream (Grove R, 2005).]

Carter, Natalie. "'Always Something of It Remains': Sexual Trauma in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls!' War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities 25 (2013): 1-40. [Interprets the critically neglected Maria through the lens of trauma theory and Spanish culture, analyzing how sexuality, domesticity, and wartime trauma combine within her to create a true fighter. Contends that while Robert Jordan is noble and brave, Maria is the hero of the novel who embodies the Spanish spirit of resiliency.]

Cirino, Mark. "That Supreme Moment of Complete Knowledge: Hemingway's Theory of the Vision of the Dying." In War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings. Eds. Steve Paul, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2014. 242-59. [Examines the reoccurring phenomenon of life review, the concept of life flashing before one's eyes just prior to death, in several EH texts including chapters XIV and XV of IOT, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," IIS, and FWBT. Cirino focuses on the protagonists' differing states of consciousness, concluding that their autobiographical death perceptions reveal the way they viewed their lives.]

--. "I am Hemingway's Renata." PMLA 129.2 (March 2014): 257-66. [Cirino contextualizes and translates a 1965 article by Adriana Ivancich, the inspiration for Renata of ARIT. Ivancich attempts to set the record straight regarding her relationship with the much older EH, characterizing their association as a friendship based on a mutual desire to help each other creatively and artistically.]

--. "The Nasty Mess: Hemingway, Italian Fascism, and the New Review Controversy of 1932." The Hemingway Review 33.2 (Spring 2014): 30-47.

Clayton, Daniel. "Getting to the Truth: Hemingway, Cather, and the Testimony of Two World Wars." In War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings. Eds. Steve Paul, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2014. 202-20. [Reads Cather's One of Ours and ETA as complementary expositions on the meaning of war. Clayton concludes that despite EH s criticism of Cather's lack of direct war experience, both novels provide authentic and realistic, albeit incomplete, portraits of the multiple truths found in war. Discusses the inherent challenges of false memory and deviating from the accepted patriotic myth in reconstructing truthful narratives of war.]

Collinge-Germain, Linda. "The Aesthetics of Revealing/Concealing in 'The Killers' by Ernest Hemingway and in Its Adaptation by Robert Siodmak." Journal of the Short Story in English 59 (Autumn 2012): 93-105. [Looks at how Siodmak's 1946 film noir adaptation fills in the gaps by expanding EH's narrative, arguing that the detective serves as the reader in his quest for meaning. Compares EH's practice of omission to Siodmak's aesthetic of visually withholding information.]

Daiker, Donald A. "Irene and Ernest: A Love Story?" The Hemingway Review 33.2 (Spring 2014): 136-42.

Donaldson, Scott. "Hemingway vs. Fenton." In Death of a Rebel: The Charlie Fenton Story. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UR 2012. 53-74. [Detailed picture of EH's often contentious relationship with teacher scholar Charles Fenton during the writing of the latter's dissertation and book The Apprenticeship of Ernest Hemingway (1954). Despite writing during the period when EH was particularly suspicious of academics, critics, and biographers, Fenton managed to engage EH's assistance with the project through to publication. Quotes liberally from their correspondence.]

Eby, Carl P. "Who is the 'Destructive Type'?: Re-Reading Literary Jealousy and Destruction in The Garden of Eden!' The Hemingway Review 33.2 (Spring 2014): 99-106.

Fenstermaker, John. "Ernest Hemingway, 1917-1918: First Work, First War." In War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings. Eds. Steve Paul, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2014. 14-35. [Examines EH's letters to his parents and sisters while a cub reporter in Kansas City and later as a volunteer ambulance driver at the Italian front. Concludes that the exaggeration in these early letters, intended to dominate, impress, and gain approval, reveals the initial stages of EH's lifelong obsession with creating and perfecting a sophisticated and accomplished public image.]

--. "Ernest Hemingway in Esquire: Contextualizing Arnold Gingrich's Posthumous Portrait(s) of Man and Artist, 1961-1973." In Literature and Journalism: Inspirations, Intersections, and Inventions from Ben Franklin to Stephen Colbert. Ed. Mark Canada. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 187-207. [On Esquire editor Arnold Gingrich's significant shaping of EH's critical reputation in the first decade following the author's death. Fenstermaker surveys Gingrich's longstanding relationship with EH beginning in 1935 and details several of the more than sixty posthumous portraits appearing in Esquire's pages, including full length assessments of EH's art and anecdotes on his life.]

--. "Hemingway's Modernism: Exploring Its Victorian Roots." South Atlantic Review 76.3 (2011): 77-92. [Opens with an overview of the cultural influence of Victorianism on the Oak Park area and the Hemingway household in particular before moving into an examination of classic Victorian themes found in EH's early "Up in Michigan," "My Old Man," and "Out of Season." Concludes that while EH's focus on male/female relationships throughout his oeuvre reflects his Victorian roots, his reshaping of that subject matter to include abortion, bisexuality, and venereal disease mark him as a modern.]

Forsythe, Matthew. "The Fragmented Origins of Ernest Hemingway's A Natural History of the Dead.'" In War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings. Eds. Steve Paul, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2014. 131-49. [Manuscript study. Close structural reading of the critically neglected story from its earliest origins as parody fragment to finished product. Forsythe focuses on EH's struggle with style, tone, and purpose through several drafts to eventually arrive at a clear critique of war, death, and its aftermath.]

Fuller, Robert. "Hemingway at Rambouillet." The Hemingway Review 33.2 (Spring 2014): 66-80.

Giemza, Bryan. "A Source Text for the Opening Passage of A Farewell to Arms." The Hemingway Review 33.2 (Spring 2014): 119-25.

Grissom, Candace Ursula. Fitzgerald and Hemingway on Film: A Critical Study of the Adaptations, 1924-2013. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. [Comprehensive guide to the film adaptations of EH's major works, concentrating on the influence of celebrity culture on both the author and later film adaptations. Grissom develops and applies a method for critically assessing the cinematic cohesion of the adaptation to the original printed work.]

Pp. 101-62: "Papa's Grace Under Genre Pressure, Part One: Hollywood Adaptations of Hemingway, 1932-1952." [Argues that the early adaptations of FTA (1932), FWBT (1943), "The Killers" (1946), and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1952) stay more closely tied to the author than the text, blurring the lines between biography and fiction.]

Pp. 163-233: "Papa's Grace Under Genre Pressure, Part Two: Hollywood Adaptations of Hemingway, 1957-2013." Concludes that the later cinematic versions of SAR (1957), FTA (1957), OMS (1958), "The Killers" (1964), and IIS (1977) move toward a more collaborative vision of author and filmmaker. Grissom argues that decreasing restrictions by the Hemingway estate following the author's death have led to an even greater incorporation of EH's life and works into the film adaptations.]

Hart, Jeffrey. The Living Moment: Modernism in a Broken World. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2012.

Pp. 59-80: "Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and The Sun Also Rises!' [Opens by contrasting EH's distinctly new style in TSTP, iot, and IOT with Fitzgerald's reliance on the Romantic tradition. Hart focuses on the stories of IOT in his examination of the Hemingway hero's search for relief from the destruction and chaos of the modern world. Closes with a discussion of SAR's major themes and EH's veiled attack on Fitzgerald through the character of Robert Cohn.]

Pp. 81-97: "Hemingway's Best Novel." [Commentary on EH's stylistic mastery in FTA, focusing on the poetic qualities of the novel's opening, careful structuring of window views, and Catherine's status as heroine.]

Haytock, Jennifer. "Looking at Horses: Destructive Spectatorship in The Sun Also Rises!' In War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings. Eds. Steve Paul, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2014. 94-112. [Reads Jake's and Bretts responses to the traumatic aftereffects of World War I in light of Martin Harries's recent study on "destructive spectatorship" which argues that facing the past, as in the biblical story of Lot's wife, poses the threat of mental and physical annihilation. Haytock concludes: "For Hemingway's veterans, the horror of not being destroyed by the violence they have witnessed must be balanced with the need to remember, which itself is a dangerous activity."

Hemingway, Hilary. "Hemingway's Pilar." WoodenBoat 233 (July/August 2013): 52-58. [Recounts the difficulties in locating and then transforming a suitable Pilar boat-double for an upcoming movie on EH's sport fishing in Cuba entitled Hemingway & Fuentes, co-written by Hilary Hemingway, EH's niece.]

--. "Pilar's Life at the Finca." WoodenBoat 233 (July/August 2013): 59 61. [Traces Pilar's eventful history following EH's death, including hurricanes, five-year restoration, and final relocation to EH's tennis court at the Finca Vigia.]

Hurley, C. Harold. "'Pen,' 'Pencil,' and 'Penis' in Ernest Hemingway's 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro.'" Explicator 72.1 (January 2014): 38-40. [Focuses on the story's phallic wordplay, relating it to a sexual reference found in DIA on the use of one's penis over one's pen to earn a living.]

--. "An Error in the Text of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms". Explicator 71.4 (June 2013): 281-83. [Manuscript study addressing the problematic phrasing of one sentence near the beginning of chapter 4. Hurley suggests two emendations to clarify, concluding that even EH was not above erring in his sentence construction.]

Jones, Finn-Olaf. "Ernest Hemingway's Havana Retreat." The Wall Street Journal 262.136 (8 January 2013): 148-53. [Tour of EH's Cuban home and haunts with brief biographical commentary.]

Justice, Hilary Kovar. "'Somewhat Rough Withal': Hemingway's Personal Copy of Old English Ballads (English I, Oak Park High School)." The Hemingway Review 33.2 (Spring 2014): 126-35.

Keene, Jennifer D. "Hemingway: A typical Doughboy." In War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings. Eds. Steve Paul, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2014. 53-71. [Situates EH's wartime experiences within the context of World War I. Despite EH's exploits at the Italian front, Keene categorizes the author's eagerness to serve, desire for overseas travel, and need to prove his heroism as typical of the average American soldier.]

Kingsbury, Celia M. "A Way It Never Was: Propaganda and Shell Shock in 'Soldier's Home' and A Way You'll Never Be.'" In War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings. Eds. Steve Paul, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2014. 150-168. [Surveys the proliferation of propaganda designed to convert allies and recruit soldiers for the war effort as the backdrop for analyzing the devastating effects of such official lying on returning soldiers like Harold Krebs and Nick Adams struggling with the truth of their war experiences.]

Knodt, Ellen Andrews. "'Pleasant, Isn't It?': The Language of Hemingway and His World War I Contemporaries." In War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings. Eds. Steve Paul, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2014. 72-93. [Compares EH's early fiction and wartime correspondence with correspondence written by other soldiers of the period, arguing that EH's stylistic inclination for irony, euphuism, and understatement was shared by his contemporaries, making them kindred spirits. Knodt discusses both their similar attitudes regarding their service while in the war and difficulties with postwar adjustment.]

Kolb, Waltraud. "'Who Are They?': Decision-Making in Literary Translation." In Tracks and Treks in Translation Studies. Eds. Catherine Way, Sonia Vandepitte, and Reine Meylaerts. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Benjamins, 2013. 207-21. [Examines the methods of five literary translators regarding their German translations of "A Very Short Story." Kolb focuses on their active construction of meaning when confronted with ambiguous or underspecified stylistic features to reveal that the translators role as reader and constructor of meaning is more influential than commonly thought.]

Kyle, Frank. Hemingway and the Post-Narrative Condition: A Commentary on The Sun Also Rises and Other Essays. Rev. ed. Bloomington, IN: Author-Flouse, 2013. [Reprint of 1995 edition with one new critical essay on EH. See annotation below.]

Pp. 510-53: "Rediscovering the Earth: Jake Barnes and Basho." [Discusses Jake's break from Judeo Christianity in SAR as a liberating experience allowing him to fall in love with the earth and the value of living in the present. Uses Matsuo Basho's poetry from The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches (1966) as a lens for viewing Jake's earthly journey and celebration of life in the here and now.]

Mazzeo, Tilar J. The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris. New York: HarperCollins, 2014. [History of Paris' iconic and world-famous Hotel Ritz, focusing on World War II and the German occupation. Frequent references to EH throughout.]

Pp. 61-74: "The Americans Drifting to Paris: 1944." [Details EH's exploits following his return to London as a war correspondent in spring 1944, including the ending of his turbulent marriage to third wife Martha Gellhorn, the blossoming of his relationship with fourth wife Mary Welsh, and Gellhorn's trumping of other war correspondents, including EH, with her onshore reporting of the D-Day invasion at Normandy.]

Pp. 123-37: "The Press Corps and the Race to Paris." [On EH's competitive desire to be the first journalist back at the Hotel Ritz following the occupation. Details EH's combat and drinking exploits with his band of "irregulars," skirmishes with war photographer Robert Capa, and growing interest in Mary Welsh.]

Pp. 139-50: "Ernest Hemingway and the Ritz Liberated." [Covers EH's liberation of the Ritz and its wine cellars at the closing of the German occupation, describing the party atmosphere after EH and his "irregulars" took over the luxury hotel.]

Pp. 151-62: "Those Dame Reporters: August 26, 1944." [Details EH's Parisian rambles following the liberation, meeting up with old friends and acquaintances such as Sylvia Beach and Pablo Picasso.]

McGrath, Charles. "A Mutable Feast: Batch of Hemingway Ephemera From Cuba is Digitized." The New York Times 163.56409 (11 February 2014): C1-C6. [Announces the addition of 2,500 digitized documents, including letters, telegrams, diaries, and bank statements from EH's Cuban home now available at the Hemingway Collection in Bostons John F. Kennedy Library.]

Meyers, Jeffrey. "Gatsby Meets 'Macomber.'" New Criterion 32.10 (June 2014): 35-37. [Compares The Great Gatsby with "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" to reveal EH s careful transformation of Fitzgeralds characters and themes of adultery, murder, and lost illusions.]

Monti, Enrico. "Minimalism, Dirty Realism, and Raymond Carver." In Raymond Carver. Ed. James Plath. Ipswich, MA: Salem, 2013. 56-69. [Brief commentary on the influence of EH's theory of omission in shaping Carver's minimalist style. Monti argues that Carver's editor, Gordon Lish, was most responsible for Carver's minimalism.]

Moreland, Kim. "Hemingway and Women at the Front: Blowing Bridges in A Farewell to Arms, The Fifth Column, and For Whom the Bell Tolls!' In War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings. Eds. Steve Paul, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2014. 286-323. [Moreland discusses EH's resistance to the increasing number of women venturing into the male arena of warfare, as evidenced in his turbulent marriages with war correspondents Martha Gellhorn and Mary Welsh and his fiction. Focuses on Catherine Barkley's withdrawal from the warfront to be a wife and mother, Dorothy Dix's confinement to the domestic sphere despite her occupation as war correspondent, and Pilar's combat role as observer rather than participant.]

Neimneh, Shadi. "The Anti-Hero in Modernist Fiction: From Irony to Cultural Renewal." Mosaic 46.4 (December 2013): 75-90. [Applies Joseph Campbell's theory of heroism to SAR, Joyce's Ulysses, and Samuel Beckett's Murphy in his examination of the nature of anti-heroism found in modernist texts. For Jake, the mythic journey becomes an interior initiation in which his newfound understanding of his weaknesses and limitations reinvigorates his ability to adapt and survive in a chaotic and culturally fragmented world.]

Nickel, Matthew. "Across the Canal and Into Kansas City: Hemingway's Westward Composition of Absolution in Across the River and into the Trees" In War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings. Eds. Steve Paul, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2014. 324-49. [Analysis of the novel's symbolic landscape, providing a close reading of Cantwell's imaginary road trip from Kansas City to reveal a religious subtext of absolution and rebirth. Nickel connects Cantwell's need for atonement with the personal horrors EH experienced during World War II, contending that "Kansas City may serve in Hemingway's memory and imagination as a point of return and renewal."]

--. "An Attention That Is Almost Holy': The Spirit of Provence in Dur rell and Hemingway." In Durrell and the City: Collected Essays on Place. Ed. Donald P. Kaczvinsky. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2012.133-44. [Compares Lawrence Durrell's travel book Caesar's Vast Ghost with GOE, finding numerous similarities in their ritualistic and spiritual depictions of Provence. Nickel discusses each author's rendering of the sacredness of landscape and rejuvenating effects of pilgrimage.]

Palmer, Daryl W. "Hemingway's 'Soldier's Home': The Kansas Welcome Association, Abbreviations, and World War I Archives." In War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings. Eds. Steve Paul, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2014. 190-201. [Draws on a number of primary sources such as contemporary Methodist college yearbooks, newspaper accounts, letters, and the archives of the Kansas Welcome Association founded to provide hospitality to returning combat veterans to mine the cultural richness of the first two sentences of "Soldier's Home."]

Paul, Steve, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout. "Introduction." In War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings. Eds. Steve Paul, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2014. ix-xix. [Brief overview of EH's early apprenticeship as a writer, influenced by his Midwestern roots, journalistic experience, and wartime service. Closes with a summary of the articles included in the volume.]

Paul, Steve. "Hemingway in Kansas City: The True Dope on Violence and Creative Sources in a Vile and Lively Place." In War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings. Eds. Steve Paul, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2014. 1-13. [Detailed comparison of chapter VIII of IOT with a brief 1917 news item on a cigar store robbery appearing in the Star to reveal how EH's time spent covering the violent and crime-ridden streets of Kansas City translated into his later fiction.]

Phillips, Thomas. "Becoming Fiction: Sarraute, Stein, Hemingway." In The Subject of Minimalism: On Aesthetics, Agency, and Becoming. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.33-55. [Draws on the theories of "becoming" found in the work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari to discuss Nick's process of postwar healing through the portal of nature in "Big Two-Hearted River." Reads the details of the camp experience as a reflection of Nick's interior landscape where the reader is invited through EH's minimalist language to experience the temporal components of the passing day.]

Polonsky, Abraham. "Hemingway and Chaplin." In Abraham Polonsky: Interviews. Ed. Andrew Dickos. Jackson, MS: UP of Mississippi, 2013. 17-28. [Screenwriter and filmmaker Abraham Polonsky discusses OMS as a spiritual and psychological self-portrait of EH, touching on the role of the artist and the Hemingway hero. Reprinted from The Contemporary Reader 1.1 (March 1953).]

Poston, Margaret J. "Martha Gellhorn." In American World War II Correspondents: Dictionary of Literary Biography 364. Eds. Jeffery B. Cook and Philip B. Dematteis. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2012. 101-09. [Biographical essay touching on Gellhorn's marriage to and divorce from EH.]

Puckett, James A. "'Sex explains it all': Male Performance, Evolution, and Sexual Selection in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises!' Studies in American Naturalism. 8.2 (Winter 2013): 125-49. [Draws on theories of evolutionary psychology and cognitive science in his examination of masculine performance and its role in sexual selection, concluding that masculinity for the male characters in SAR is based on the judgment of Brett who then chooses her mate according to how he conducts himself. Puckett discusses the count's scars, Cohn's broken nose, Mike's laceration, Jake's economic value, and Romero's good looks and bullfighting skills, concluding that in the end Brett rejects biological determinism in favor of free will as a comforting force in a post-Darwinian world.]

Quinlan, Sean M. "Shots to the Mind: Violence, the Brain and Biomedicine in Popular Novels and Film in Post-1960s America." European Journal of American Culture 32.3 (2013): 215-34. [Traces the rise of the gruesome headshot image found in popular contemporary American film and fiction to the historical traumas of EH's suicide, John F. Kennedy's assassination, and alleged Viet Cong terrorist Nguyen Van Lem's execution. Only brief references to EH.]

Quinn, Patrick J. and Steven Trout. "Idealism, Deadlock, and Decimation: The Italian Experience of World War I in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and Emilio Lussu's Sardinian Brigade." In War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings. Eds. Steve Paul, Gail Sinclair, and Steven Trout. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2014. 113-30. [Close comparison of EH's text with Lussu's later 1939 autobiographical novel based on his war experiences at the Italian front. Quinn contends that Lussu authenticates EH's assessment of the failings of the Italian Army and reasons for the subsequent rise of fascism in postwar Italy.]

Thomieres, Daniel. "Being and Time in Ernest Hemingway's 'Cat in the Rain.'" Journal of the Short Story in English 60 (Spring 2013): 31-42. [Discusses the wife's desires for fulfillment and escape from time, lack of rapport with her husband, and inability to understand her own identity as an open-ended mental process. Thomieres speculates that the wife may develop a mental disorder such as anorexia or bulimia.]

Verhave, Jan Peter. "Ernest Hemingway and Paul de Kruif." The Hemingway Review 33.2 (Spring 2014): 143-50.

Wapshott, Nicholas. "Hemingway's Homophobia." Newsweek Global 162.2 (2014): 115-22. [Reprint of 1925 letter from EH to friend William B. "Bill" Smith disparaging gay men.]

White, Eric B. "Continental Conjecture: Ephemera, Imitation and America's (late) Modernist Canons in the Three Mountains Press and Robert McAlmon's Contact Editions." European Journal of American Culture 32.3 (September 2013): 285-306. [On McAlmon's often overlooked literary and editorial career, focusing on the crucial impact his poetry and publishing house had on late modernism. Comments briefly on McAlmon's publishing of EH's innovative and experimental TSTP and iot.]

Wyatt, David. "Awkwardness and Appreciation in Death in the Afternoon." The Hemingway Review 33.2 (Spring 2014): 81-98.

Wright, Frederick A. "The Short Story Just Got Shorter: Hemingway, Narrative, and the Six-Word Urban Legend." Journal of Popular Culture 47.2 (April 2014): 327-40. [Investigates EH's supposed authorship of the "Baby Shoes" text, identifying playwright John de Groot and his one character play on EH's life entitled Papa as the source. Wright theorizes on the six-word text's impact on popular culture and discusses the problems associated with defining such a short piece as a story.]

Xhonneux, Lies. "Rebecca Brown's Disidentificatory Reading of Canonical Minimalism: Placing Anti-Abjection on the Literary Agenda." English Studies 93.7 (November 2012): 858-75. [Influence study situating Brown's writings within the context of EH's and Raymond Carver's minimalist style. Xhonneux examines how Brown reworks minimalist features such as vague rhetoric to counter dominant ideology.]

Zaidi, Ali Shehzad. "The Camouflage of the Sacred in Hemingway's Short Fiction." Theory in Action 7.2 (April 2014): 104-20. [Arguing against reading EH's fiction as a spiritual wasteland, Zaidi examines the presence of light imagery, biblical allusions, and Christological connections in "The Killers," "A Clean Well-Lighted Place," "Old Man at the Bridge," "The Light of the World," and "Today is Friday."]

Zorzi, Rosella Mamoli. "Hemingway in Venice." Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art 15.3 (2013): 64-73. [Brief biographical commentary on EH's Venice experiences accompanied by eight photographs from the original 2011 Venice exhibition "Hemingway's Veneto."]

DISSERTATIONS

Beck, Zachary G. "American Modernism's Fading Flowers of Friendship." DAI-A 75/01(E), July 2014.

Davis, Lanta M. "Signs That Point Nowhere: Empty Theological Forms in Twentieth-Century American Literature." DAI-A 74/11(E), May 2014.

Harris, Donal Frederick. "On Company Time: American Modernism and the Big Magazines." DAI-A 74/09(E,) March 2014.

Ortolano, Scott. "Logically Disturbed: Cognitive Otherness, Consumer Culture, and the Pursuit of Happiness in American Modernist Literature." DAI-A 75/01 (E), July 2014.

Pappageorge, Tim. "Roles of Engagement: Role-playing in the Teaching and Learning of Argument Writing Among 9th Grade." DAI-A 75/07(E), January 2015.

Xhonneux, Lies. "'What Keeps Us Moving': Multiple Identifications in the Writings of Rebecca Brown." DAI-A74/11(E), May 2014.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE SCHOLARSHIP

Cochoy, Nathalie. "Danser, toreer: La Beaute du geste dans Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises, d'Ernest Hemingway." Etudes Anglaises: Revue du Monde Anglophone 64.3 (July-September 2011): 304-13. [French]

Costa Picazo, Rolando. "Homenaje a Ernest Hemingway en el cincuentenario de su muerte." Boletin de la Academia Argentina de Letras 76 (September-December 2011): 317-18. [Spanish]

Gomez, Jorge. "Ernest Hemingway la inquieta leyenda de Key West." Revista Hispano Cubana 44 (November-December 2012): 113-15. [Spanish]

Hardivilliers, Alberic d'. Ernest Hemingway: vivre, ecrire, tout est la. Paris: Editions Transboreal, 2014. [French]

Kholkin, Vladimir. "V dozhde neponimaniia: Ernest Kheminguei i Iurii Kazakov: 'Koshka pod dozhdem' i 'Von bezhit sobaka.'" Zvezda 2 (2013): np. [Russian]

Koseman, Zennure. "Ernest Hemingway in 'Satilik Bebek Patikleri: Hic Giyilmemic Adh Kisa Kisa Oykusunde Cok Anlamhhk." Journal of Graduate School of Social Sciences 73 (2013): 105-16. [Turkish]

Smeets, Joris W. Hemingway: 'the best writers are liars': de Parijse memoires van Ernest Hemingway en zijn vrienden. Soesterberg: Uitgeverij Aspekt, 2014. [Dutch]

BOOK REVIEWS

[Books are arranged alphabetically by author. Reviews are also arranged alphabetically by author and follow the book's bolded citation.]

Cirino, Mark. Ernest Hemingway: Thought in Action. Madison, WI: U of Wisconsin P, 2012.

Cheatle, Joseph. "Book Reviews." The Hemingway Review 33.2 (Spring 2014): 158-61.

Lamb, Robert Paul. The Hemingway Short Story: A Study in Craft for Writers and Readers. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State UP, 2013.

Knodt, Ellen Andrews. The Hemingway Review 33.2 (Spring 2014): 154-58.

Main, Georgianna. Pip-Pip to Hemingway in Something from Marge. Bloomington, IN: Universe, 2010.

Nickel, Matthew C. "Book Reviews." The Hemingway Review 33.2 (Spring 2014): 161-64.

McLain, Paula. The Paris Wife. New York: Random House, 2011.

Gammel, Irene. "New Readings of American Expats in Paris." Canadian Review of American Studies 44.1 (2014): 148-58.

Nickel, Matthew C. Hemingway's Dark Night: Catholic Influences and Intertextualities in the Work of Ernest Hemingway. Wickford, RI: New Street Communications, 2013.

Von Cannon, Michael. "Book Reviews." The Hemingway Review 33.2 (Spring 2014): 151-54.

Paul, Steve, Gail Sinclair and Steven Trout, eds. War + Ink: New Perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's Early Life and Writings. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2014.

H.V. "War + Ink." Library Journal (15 April 2014): 101.

Spanier, Sandra, Albert J. DeFazio III and Robert W. Trogdon, eds. The Letters of Ernest Hemingway Volume 2, 1923-1925. New York: Cambridge UP, 2013.

Sweeney, Jon M. "Epistolary Treasures." America 210.6 (24 February 2014): 33-35.

Spanier, Sandra and Robert W. Trogdon, eds. The Letters of Ernest Hemingway Volume 1, 1907-1922. New York: Cambridge UP, 2011.

Gammel, Irene. "New Readings of American Expats in Paris." Canadian Review of American Studies 44.1 (2014): 148-58.

Kelli A. Larson

University of St. Thomas