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
Bloom, Harold, ed. Ernest Hemingway (Bloom's Modern Critical
Views). New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2011. [Reader's
companion to EH's life and major works, including SAR, FTA, and
OMAS. Reprints criticism from such well known EH scholars as George
Monteiro, Susan F. Beegel, and Donald A. Daiker. Includes a bibliography
and chronology of the author's life.]
--. Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises--New Edition
(Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations). New York: Bloom's
Literary Criticism. 2011. [Reader's companion to the novel.
Reprints criticism from such well known EH scholars as H.R. Stoneback,
James Nagel, and Donald D. Daiker. Includes a bibliography and
chronology of the author's life along with a brief introductory
essay by Bloom characterizing SAR as an elegy.]
Calabi, Silvio, Steve Helsley and Roger Sanger. Hemingway's
Guns: The Sporting Arms of Ernest Hemingway. Camden, ME: Shooting
Sportsman, 2010. [Thoroughly researched descriptive guide to EH's
extensive collection of guns, revealing much about the author and his
sporting life along the way. Argues that EH's inclination for
quality and functionality reflected his high level of expertise. Traces
EH's lifelong use of and fascination with firearms beginning with
his introduction by his father at just two and a half years old.
Includes short excerpts from letters and works such as GHA and UK and
over 100 black and white photographs of EH hunting and shooting with
family, friends, celebrities, and associates.]
Larsen, Lyle. Stein and Hemingway: The Story of a Turbulent
Friendship. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. [Literary and historical
biography tracing EH and Stein's complicated and troubled
relationship. Covers their initial 1922 Paris meeting, their falling out
after the publication of SAR, and occasional reconciliations over the
next two decades. Draws on memoirs, biographies, letters, and previously
unpublished material from the Kennedy Library to piece together the
evolution of their friendship from budding admiration to intense
resentment and jealousy.]
Newlin, Keith, ed. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (Critical
Insights Series). Pasadena, CA: Salem P, 2010. [Study geared toward
students and general readers. Divided into two parts, the first section
contains new essays on the novel's composition, critical history,
and Paris context. The second reprints essays from such well known EH
scholars as Carlos Baker, Mark Spilka, and Scott Donaldson reflecting
the changing critical landscape over the years. Newlin's
introductory materials, "About This Volume" and "On The
Sun Also Rises," outline the novel's origins and compositional
history and surveys the volume's contents including six new essays
annotated below.
Pp. 12-16: "Biography of Ernest Hemingway" by Stanley
Archer. [Brief biography of the author's life and major literary
achievements.]
Pp. 17-19: "The Paris Review Perspective" by Petrina
Crockford for the Paris Review. [Muses on the novel's cultural
impact and creative influence on other writers.]
Pp. 23-35: "An American in Paris: Hemingway and the Expatriate
Life" by Matthew J. Bolton. [Contextualizes the novel within the
larger expatriate scene by examining EH's fictionalization of his
real life Paris experience. Focuses on his development of the definitive
autonomous expatriate figure.]
Pp. 36-48: "Gender Identity and the Modern Condition in The
Sun Also Rises" by Jennifer Banach. [Discusses the novel's
revision of traditional gender roles resulting from the unsettled
aftermath of World War I. Suggests the novel's androgynous strains
reflect postwar uncertainty regarding the extinction of old world
notions of sexuality, love, and romance, and that Jake's impotence
becomes an allegory of the modern condition.]
Pp. 49-64: "The Art of Friction: Ernest Hemingway and William
Faulkner" by Lorie Watkins Fulton. ]Draws on biography,
correspondence and published materials in reconstructing EH and
Faulkner's lifelong literary rivalry. Concludes that Jake's
troubled relationship with Robert Cohn anticipates EH'S later
competition with Faulkner.]
Pp. 65-83: "The Critical History of The Sun Also Rises"
by Laurence W. Mazzeno. [Surveys important scholarly developments and
trends from contemporary reviews to the most recent feminist and gender
studies.]
Vernon, Alex. Hemingway's Second War: Bearing Witness to the
Spanish Civil War. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2011. [Literary biography
examining EH's involvement in the Spanish Civil War. Opens with a
biographical overview of EH's coverage of the war as a
correspondent for NANA and a stylistic analysis of his dispatches.
Includes important background material on EH's politics and the
complicated leftist politics of the period. Explores both the film and
book version of The Spanish Earth and provides a detailed account of
EH'S role in the filming of the documentary. Vernon closes with a
thorough analysis of FWBT, including a close look at historical
connections, gender roles, and parallels between Robert Jordan and
Frederic Henry of FTA. Chapter 2 appeared in slightly revised form as
"Style, Politics, and Ernest Hemingway's Spanish Civil War
Dispatches" in Mailer Review 4.1 (Fall 2010): 427-444.]
ESSAYS
Ammary, Silvia. "'The Road Not Taken' in
Hemingway's 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro.'"
Connotations 18.1-3 (2008/2009): 123-138. [Thematically connects
Frost's poem of illusory choice and lamentable chance to EH's
oeuvre, most specifically to "The Snows of Kilimanjaro."
Focuses on Harry's sense of loss coupled with remorse over his
failed writing career. Examines EH's narrative style and symbolism,
arguing for Harry as an unreliable narrator who projects his
frustrations and regrets on his wife who, unlike her husband, possesses
a realistic view of life.]
--. "Poe's 'Theory of Omission' and
Hemingway's 'Unity of Effect.'" Edgar Allan Poe
Review 11.2 (Fall 2010): 53-63. [Influence study. Begins with a close
reading of Poe's early use of omission in "The Cask of
Amontillado" before analyzing EH's employment of the unity of
effect in "Cat in the Rain" in which all story elements,
including setting, characterization, theme, and imagery, contribute to
its claustrophobic sense of isolation and loneliness.]
Arner, Robert D. "On First Looking (and Looking Once Again)
into Chopin's Fiction: Kate and Ernest and 'A Pair of Silk
Stockings.'" In Awakenings: The Story of the Kate Chopin
Revival. Ed. Bernard Koloski. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2009.
112-130. [Cites briefly EH'S theory of omission as support for his
reading of Chopin's underlying theme of gendered identity
construction and critique of capitalism.]
Baskett, Sam S. "Ezra and Hem: A Moveable Friendship?' In
Ezra Pound, Language and Persona. Eds. Massimo Bacigalupo and William
Pratt. Genoa, Italy: Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione
Linguistica e Culturale, Universita degli Studi di Genova, 2008. 78-90.
[Drawing on correspondence, Baskett surveys EH'S longtime personal
and professional relationship with Ezra Pound beginning with their 1922
meeting in Paris and ending with EH'S suicide in 1961.]
Bayindir, Turgay. "War-Broken Masculinities and the Search for
Healing in The Sun Also Rises and Home to Harlem. In Literatures of War.
Eds. Richard Pine and Eve Patten. Newcastle upon Tyne, England:
Cambridge Scholars, 2008.132-146. [Comparison study focusing on the
theme of fractured masculine ideals (especially the notions of
masculinity as conquest and war as masculine adventure) in SAR (1926)
and Claude McKay's Home to Harlem (1928). Argues against the
possibility of Jake Barnes and Jake Brown experiencing true masculine
"healing" in the post-World War I wasteland of American
culture.]
Beegel, Susan E "Bulletin Board." The Hemingway Review
30.2 (Spring 2011): 142-144.
Benchley, Nat. "Note to R (G) B From E (of) H:
Hemingway's Inscriptions to Robert Benchley." The Hemingway
Review 30.2 (Spring 2011): 118-119.
Carella, Amanda, Corey J. Dahl, Adam Lownik, and Ted Weiers.
"Current Bibliography." The Hemingway Review 30.2 (Spring
2011): 129-141.
Cheuse, Alan. "The Form Read Round the World: American Short
Fiction and World Story." World Literature Today 84.5
(September/October 2010): 24-27. [Surveys the origins and development of
the modern short story, briefly commenting on Chekov's influence on
EH and EH's influence on later writers.]
Christ, Tomas. "Uses of German Characters and Language in
20th-Century American Fiction: Some Examples from Stein, Hemingway,
O'Brien and DeLillo." In The German Presence in the U.S.A.
Eds. Josef Raab and Jan Wirrer. Berlin: Lit (2008): 397-416. [Examines
"Black Ass at the Cross Roads" to reveal EH'S intentional
deconstruction of German stereotypes. Concludes that his use of German
words demonstrates the code hero's superior competence and ability
to maintain his humanity in moments of crisis.]
Cirino, Mark. "Hemingway's "Big Two-Hearted
River": Nick's Strategy and the Psychology of Mental
Control" Papers on Language & Literature 47.2 (Spring 2011):
115-140. [Examines Nick's attempt at self-diagnosis and
rehabilitation by replacing his unpleasant memories of the war with
simple and manageable stimulation drawn from nature and camping. After
analyzing Nick's careful suppression of emotional reactions, Cirino
concludes that his trauma runs too deep to "fish his way out of his
shock."]
Clark, Matthew. "The Dyadic Subject: Hegel, Aristophanes,
Hemingway." In Narrative Structures and the Language of the Self.
Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2010. 44-63. [Relies on Hegel's parable of
the Master and the Slave from the Phenomenology of Spirit and
Aristophanes' fable of the divided self from Plato's Symposium
to examine the role of the doubled self in FTA, a story of both love and
war. Argues that the two consciousnesses, Frederic and Catherine, merge
into one and that Frederic achieves the knowledge to interpret his
experience only through the death of Catherine, his other self.]
Daiker, Donald A. "'Don't Get Drunk, Jake':
Drinking, Drunkenness, and Sobriety in The Sun Also Rises." North
Dakota Quarterly 76.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2009): 169-185). [Close reading
of the Botin's restaurant scene within the context of the novel,
arguing that Jake's sobriety signals his determination to separate
permanently from Brett, making for a quietly optimistic ending. Notes
that Jake's tolerance for alcohol matches that of his creator and
that for EH heavy drinking does not always equate with drunkenness.]
Del Gizzo, Suzanne, Camille Roman, Hsui-Ling Lin, Scott Donaldson,
George Monteiro, and Thomas Travisano. "A Frost/Hemingway
Roundtable." The Hemingway Review 30.2 (Spring 2011): 99-117.
Fleming, Robert E. "The Death of the Children in Islands in
the Stream." North Dakota Quarterly 76.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2009):
140-146. [Speculates on the reason behind Hudson's neglect of and
failure to protect his children, attributing his aloof manner with his
family to his inability to balance his artistry with his parenting.]
Forter, Greg. "Redeeming Violence in The Sun Also Rises:
Phallic Embodiment, Primitive Ritual, Fetishistic Melancholia." In
Gender, Race, and Mourning in American Modernism. New York: Cambridge
UP, 2011.54-95. [Reads SAR as EH'S melancholic response to the
social transformation of white manhood occurring at the turn of the
twentieth century. Examines the novel's treatment of gender, race,
and primitivism, focusing on EH's ambivalence over the loss of the
socially "feminine" male disparaged by the emergent social
order. Greatly expanded version of "Melancholy Modernism: Gender
and the Politics of Mourning in The Sun Also Rises." The Hemingway
Review 21.1 (Fall 2001): 22-37.]
Gorman, Reita. "Teaching Hemingway and O'Brien in an
Inner-City High School?' In Approaches to Teaching the Works of Tim
O'Brien. Eds. Alex Vernon and Catherine Calloway. New York: Modern
Language Association of America, 2010. 202-208. ]Pedagogical approach to
"In Another Country" FTA, and Tim O'Brien's The
Things They Carried by relating psychological conflicts and themes such
as heroism and cowardice to the students' everyday lives.]
Gradoli, Marina. "Hemingway's Criteria in Ordering the
Sequence of the Vignettes of in our time (1924) and In Our Time
(1925)." North Dakota Quarterly 76.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2009):
186-190. [Structural analysis. Argues for a symmetric order to the
vignettes of IOT based on a thematic and geographic arrangement. Reads
the organization of the stories as thematic and chronological.]
Guill, Stacey. "Pilar and Maria: Hemingway's Feminist
Homage to the 'New Woman of Spain' in For Whom the Bell
Tolls." The Hemingway Review 30.2 (Spring 2011): 7-20.
Harding, Jennifer Riddle. "'He Had Never Written a Word
of That': Regret and Counterfactuals in Hemingway's 'The
Snows of Kilimanjaro.'" The Hemingway Review 30.2 (Spring
2011): 21-35.
Hays, Peter L. "Imperial Brett in The Sun Also Rises."
ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 23.4
(2010): 238-242. [Connects the novel's numerous imperialism
references to Brett's colonization of men, including Cohn,
Mippipopolous, Romero, and Jake. Concludes that by novel's end,
Jake realizes his domination and seeks to free himself of Brett's
control.]
Hemmingson, Michael. "Chapter 2 in Hemingway's In Our
Time." Explicator 68.4 (October-December 2010): 264-265. [Compares
EH'S 20 October 1922 news dispatch on the flight of Greek war
refugees with his fictional rendering of the same story, Chapter II of
IOT.]
Herlihy, Jeffrey. "The Complications of Exile in Ernest
Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises." North Dakota Quarterly 76.1-2
(Winter/Spring: 2009): 40-49. [Reprinted with minor revision in Exile
and the Narrative/Poetic Imagination. Ed. Agnieszka Gutthy. Newcastle
upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2010. 51-59.]
Herman, David. "Narrative Theory after the Second Cognitive
Revolution." In Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies. Ed.
Lisa Zunshine. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 2010. 155-175.
[Narratology study relying on theories of discursive psychology. Opens
with an overview of the discipline's origins and aims before moving
into an applied analysis of the face-to-face interaction found in the
literary text "Hills Like White Elephants?' Suggests that
Hemingway's construction of "talk" scenes has much to
teach narrative theory.]
--. "Time, Space, and Narrative Worlds:' In Teaching
Narrative Theory. Eds. David Herman, Brian McHale, and James Phelan. New
York: Modern Language Association of America, 2010. 123-136.
[Pedagogical approach introducing students to fundamental issues of
narrative theory through an examination of time and space in "Hills
Like White Elephants:' Focuses on how specific textual cues affect
the reader's imaginative projection of himself into the world of
the story.]
Holt, Joseph. "The Textual Condition of Hemingway's
African Book." North Dakota Quarterly 76.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2009):
50-70. [On the difficulties inherent in editing and publishing EH's
African book manuscript into three distinct posthumous narratives,
"African Journal," TAFL, and UK, concluding that each
successfully meets its own unique editorial goals. Includes tables
comparing the bibliographical features and excised sections of each
publication.]
Hotchner, A.E. "Hemingway, Hounded by the Feds." The New
York Times (2 July 2011): A19 (L). [Reminiscence on his final days with
EH. Includes Hotchner's belated admission that EH was right after
all--the F.B.I. had been following him since the 1940s.]
Houk, Walter. "Hemingway's Cuban Son Looks Back on Life
with Papa." North Dakota Quarterly 76.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2009):
71-76. [Reminiscence on his time spent with EH at the Finca Vigia and
aboard the Pilar during the early 1950s. Favorably reviews Rene
Villarreal's recent memoir, Hemingway's Cuban Son: Reflections
on the Writer by His Longtime Majordomo, in which EH's young
servant confirms many of Houk's own impressions of life with Papa
in Havana.]
Huang, Liangguang. "Man is Invincible--About Hemingway's
Humanism." English Language Teaching 3.2 (June 2010): 115-118.
[Argues against interpreting OMAS as a Christian allegory in favor of a
Humanist reading celebrating the dignity, courage, and invincibility of
humankind.]
Jolliff, William. "Redeeming the Serpentine Subtext: Dennis
Covington's Appropriation of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises in
Salvation on Sand Mountain." The Hemingway Review 30.2 (Spring
2011): 73-87.
Josephs, Allen. "Confessions of an Animal Lover: Clearing Up a
Few Things about Hemingway, Spain, and the Bulls?' North Dakota
Quarterly 76.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2009): 77-89. [Muses over his
experiences writing about bullfighting, connecting it to EH's
evolution in attitude toward the corrida from the blood and gore of DIA
to the sublime artistry of DS.]
--. "Picasso, Hemingway, and Lorca: or Toreo As a Modernist
Principle." North Dakota Quarterly 76.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2009):
90-98. [Focuses on the use of bullfighting as a central theme in their
modernist art, arguing that the ancient nature of toreo embraced a
timeless truth lost in the modern world.]
Knight, Christopher J. "Ernest Hemingway (In Our Time)?'
In Omissions Are Not Accidents: Modern Apophaticism from Henry James to
Jacques Derrida. Toronto, Canada: U of Toronto P, 2010. 52-63. [Examines
EH'S technique of omission and use of parataxis as indicators of
open-ended or greater experience in "Indian Camp" and
"Big Two-Hearted River." Touches on Bakhtin's notion of
"parodia sacra" (parody of sacred texts and rituals) in
relation to "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" and SAR.]
L'Heureux, John. "Talk That Walks: How Hemingway's
Dialogue Powers a Story." Wall Street Journal--Eastern Edition
257.35 (12 February 2011): C12. [On the "suggestive" power of
dialogue (the feeling expressed beneath the spoken words) found in
"Hills Like White Elephants."]
Lacy, Robert. "Four of a Kind: Sewanee Review 119.2 (Spring
2011): 295-300. [Biographical study connecting EH with Ty Cobb, John
Berryman, and Hamlet. Though circumstances differ, each blamed his
mother for the death of his father. Asserts that EH's hatred of his
mother over his father's suicide provided him with writing
material.]
Lamberti, Elena. "'Wandering Yankees': The
transatlantic review or How the Americans Came to Europe." In Ford
Madox Ford, Modernist Magazines and Editing. Ed. Jason Harding. New
York: Rodopi, 2010. 215-228. [Surveys the short-lived transatlantic
review and its role in bringing American modernist literature to the
forefront. Includes frequent references to EH, his turbulent
relationship with Ford and role as assistant editor, as well as the
evolving American expatriate movement of the period.]
MacGowan, Christopher. "Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)." In
The Twentieth-Century American Fiction Handbook. Malden, MA:
Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 91-95. [Brief biography geared to a general
audience tracing familiar elements of EH's life and literary
accomplishments.]
Marin Ruiz, Ricardo. "A Spanish Portrait: Spain and Its
Connections with the Thematic and Structural Dimensions of For Whom the
Bell Tolls." Journal of English Studies 8 (2010): 103-118.
[Imagological approach focused on the portrait of Spain reflected in the
novel. Opens with a detailed account of EH's lifelong love affair
with Spain before turning to an examination of the novel's episodic
structure and thematic preoccupation with violence, life and death,
horror, and humor. Concludes that EH depicts Spain as a timeless and
remote place rich in customs and characterizes its people as passionate,
rebellious, and possessing a fatalistic vision of life.]
McDuffie, Bradley R. "For Ernest, with Love and Squalor: The
Influence of Ernest Hemingway on J.D. Salinger." The Hemingway
Review 30.2 (Spring 2011): 88-98.
McFarland, Ron. "Recent Fictional Takes on the Lost Hemingway
Manuscripts." Journal of Popular Culture 44.2 (2011): 314-332.
[Commentary on the recent spate of novels appropriating EH's life
and writings.]
McKenna, John J. "No Homecoming for Soldiers: Young
Hemingway's Flight from and Return to the Midwest."
MidAmerica: The Yearbook of the Society for the Study of Midwestern
Literature 36 (2009): 83-92. [Reads "A Very Short Story,"
"Big Two-Hearted River," and "Soldier's Home"
as reflections of EH's resentment over having to return to the
conventional world of Oak Park after his Italian adventures during World
War I.]
Muller, Timo. "Hemingway: The Constructed Self." In The
Self as Object in Modernist Fiction: James, Joyce, Hemingway. Wurzburg,
Germany: Knigshausen & Neumann, 2010. 221-276. [Studies the complex
and variable mode of self-objectification in EH's fiction, focusing
on three main postures of "surrogate writers" found throughout
his oeuvre: authenticity. simplicity, and independence. Analyzes the
development of these postures beginning with the successful SAR and
their subsequent modifications in later works such as GHA, "The
Snows of Kilimanjaro," "The Gambler, the Nun, and the
Radio;' and THHN. Argues that after the failure of ARIT, EH revised
his techniques to create greater distance between himself and his
characters, ultimately resulting in his becoming one of the greatest
writers of the modernist period.]
Murray, Ciaran. "Some Versions of Nothing." Hungarian
Journal of English and American Studies 14.1 (Spring 2008): 9-20.
[Influence study. Explores the artistic expression of space or
nothingness, tracing its origins to China, Japan, and India. Briefly
discusses EH's theory of omission and its influence on Ezra Pound
and others and in turn C6zanne's influence on EH's writing
style. Scattered references to SAR, DIA, and MF.]
Nickel, Matthew. "Lighthearted Sinners and Pious Puritans,
Followers, and Believers: Hemingway's 'Holy War Meat Eaters
and Beer Drinkers Happy Hunting Ground and Mountain Religion' in
Under Kilimanjaro" North Dakota Quarterly 76.1-2 (Winter/Spring
2009): 106-120). [Examines EH's blending of Christianity with
African tribal rituals to reconcile the local with the universal in his
creation of a new religion. EH's pilgrim actively embraces the
local geography, people, and customs (including drinking and hunting) of
a place to attain universal vision or truth.]
Orel Kos, Silvana. "A Contrastive-Stylistic Study into the
Tense Distribution in English and Slovene Fictional Texts"
Linguistica 48 (2008): 227-236. [Linguistic analysis of temporal spheres
in fictional texts and their translations (between English and Slovene).
Brief look at two short passages from SAR.]
Peat, Alexandra. "Wandering Pilgrimage: Mobile Expatriatism in
Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, F. Scott Fitzgerald's
Tender is the Night and Claude McKay's Banjo." In Travel and
Modernist Literature: Sacred and Ethical Journeys. New York: Routledge,
2011. 96-130. [Comparison study of the spiritual ethics of the wandering
pilgrim found in all three novels. Contesting EH's definition of
SAR as tragedy, Peat positively characterizes the expatriate journey as
an opportunity for the spiritual seeker to escape his deadening confines
and gain a fresh perspective on the world.]
Raabe, David. "Dempsey over Hemingway in Three Rounds."
North Dakota Quarterly 76.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2009): 132-139. [Describes
EH's three embarrassing skirmishes with the boxer Jack Dempsey.]
Saddik, Annette I. "Recovering 'Moral and Sexual
Chaos' in Tennessee Williams's Clothes for a Summer
Hotel." North Carolina Literary Review 18 (2009): 53-65. [Discusses
the role of EH'S ghost in Williams's play based on the
turbulent relationship between Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald. Covers
Williams's incorporation and interpretation of familiar
biographical elements, including EH's dislike of Zelda's
disruptive influence on Scott's artistry. Explores Williams's
thematic treatment of masculinity, sexuality, and androgyny within the
play as well as each author's anxieties over their own creative
abilities.]
Shainberg, Lawrence. "History Looks at Itself: On the Road
with the Mailers and George Plimpton." In Norman Mailer's
Later Fictions: Ancient Evenings through Castle in the Forest. Ed. John
Whalen-Bridge. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 159-180. [On the
stage production of "Zelda, Scott, and Ernest: A Dramatic
Dialogue," based on their letters and writings. Shainberg provides
the play's compositional and performance history along with
explanatory notes and background material connecting the six American
icons: George Plimpton as Scott Fitzgerald, Norris Church Mailer as
Zelda Fitzgerald and Norman Mailer as EH.]
Shakespeare, Alex. "The Names of Rivers and the Names of
Birds: Ezra Pound, Louis Agassiz, and the 'Luminous Detail' in
Hemingway's Early Fiction" The Hemingway Review 30.2 (Spring
2011): 36-53.
Stoltzfus, Ben. "Hemingway's Iceberg: Camus'
L'Etranger and The Sun Also Rises." North Dakota Quarterly
76.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2009): 22-39. [Influence study examining how
EH's iceberg principle functions in Camus' novel. Stoltzfus
points out numerous thematic and situational connections between SAR and
L'Etranger but focuses mainly on each author's use of omission
to enrich the reader's experience.]
Stoneback, H.R. "For Whom the Flood Rolls: Ernest Hemingway
and Robert Penn Warren--Connections and Echoes, Allusion, and
Intertextuality." North Dakota Quarterly 76.1-2 (Winter/Spring
2009): 7-21. [Comparison study noting similarities in character, theme,
and imagery between Warren's Flood (1964) and FWBT. Details their
1929 Paris meeting along with each author's later references to the
other in correspondence and interviews. Also sums up Warren's
criticism on Hemingway.]
Trubek, Anne. "Hemingway's Breadcrumb Trail" In A
Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses. Philadelphia: U of
Pennsylvania P, 2011.67-87. [Reminiscence of her tour of EH's
houses in Ketchum and Key West. Includes snippets
of conversations with curators and tour guides along with
biographical information on these residences and others such as the Sun
Valley Lodge and Finca Vigia in Cuba.]
Twomey, Lisa A. "Taboo or Tolerable?: Hemingway's For
Whom the Bell Tolls in Postwar Spain" The Hemingway Review 30.2
(Spring 2011): 54-72.
Tyler, Lisa. "Opera, Maternal Influence, and Gender in Ernest
Hemingway's The Ash Heel's Tendon'.' In Music and
Literary Modernism: Critical Essays and Comparative Studies. Ed. Robert
P. McParland. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2006.
136-143. [Summarizes the role of music in EH's youth, particularly
the feminizing and maternalizing influence of opera. Argues that the
story, written early in the author's career, anticipates his
lifelong thematic interest in the value of stoicism.]
Vernon, Alex. "The Spanish Earth Makes a Book." Ivens
Magazine 16 (October 2010). [Not seen. "Vernon, Alex.
Hemingway's Second War: Bearing Witness to the Spanish Civil War.
Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2011: xii.]
Willis, Lloyd. Environmental Evasion: The Literary, Critical, and
Cultural Politics of 'Nature's Nation: Albany: State U of New
York P, 2011.
Pp. 125-130: "Afterword: Ernest Hemingway and American
Literature's Legacy of Environmental Disengagement: The Circular
Trajectory of Environmental Openness in In Our Time:' [Argues that
despite EH's concerns regarding the unsustainability of modern
environmental policies, he creates a virginal territory, particularly in
"Big Two-Hearted River" in which the natural world remains
perpetually open and unthreatened.]
Pp. 130-134: "Bad Faith in Green Hills of Africa."
[Contends that Hemingway confronts the issue of environmental
destruction head-on in his depiction of America's imperialistic
treatment of Africa, but evades the reality of Africa's eventual
environmental exhaustion by turning his attention to the Gulf Stream, a
new and immutable horizon that negates the threat of ultimate
environmental annihilation.]
Wolf, Howard R. "Imitating Hemingway: 'After Such
Knowledge.. "" Cithara 50.2 (May 2011): 14-22.
[Jewish-American author Howard Wolf, once so in awe of EH that he
desired to imitate his life and work, chronicles the life-changing event
that opened his eyes to the danger of dismissing EH's anti-Semitism
in SAR as merely a reflection of literary realism.]
Wright, Chantal. "The Water under the Bridge: Tzveta
Sofronieva's Der Alte Mann, das Meer, die Frau." In Shoreless
Bridges: South East European Writing in Diaspora. Ed. Elka
Agoston-Nikolova. New York: Rodopi, 2010.97116. [On the Bulgarian
poet's feminist retelling of OMAS in which fishing is reduced to a
hobby and Manolin is replaced by a woman.]
Xie, Yaochen. "Hemingway's Language Style and Writing
Techniques in The Old Man and the Sea." English Language Teaching
1.2 (December 2008): 156-158. [Commentary on EH's deliberate
manipulation of language and facts in OMAS resulting in both a seemingly
natural prose style and believable fictional narrative.]
Yu, Xiaoping. "The New Woman in The Sun Also Rises."
English Language Teaching 3.3 (September 2010): 176-179. [Characterizes
Brett as an embodiment of the New Woman based on her physical appearance
and behavior.]
DISSERTATIONS
Casey, John Anthony, Jr. "The Vanishing Civil War Veteran in
Late Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture." DAI-A
72/04, October 2011.
Dick, Christopher. "Shifting Form, Transforming Content:
Stylistics Alterations in the German Translations of Hemingway's
Early Fiction." DAI-A 71/02, August 2010.
Dunick, Lisa Marie Schifano. "Selling Out: The American
Literary Market Place and the Modernist Novel" DAI-A 71/12, June
2011.
Lallas, Demetrios ]. "Salt of the Earth Country: A Genealogy
of "The American Dream; 1914-1968: DAI-A 70/07, January 2010.
Marin Ruiz, Ricardo. "La imagen de Espana durante la Guerra
Civil en 'L'espoir; 'Homage to Catalonia' y
'For Whom the Bell Tolls'" DAI-A 70/10, April 2010.
Ritchie, Matthew Jeremy. "Functional Context: Underlying
Principle of Language Structure in Literary Interpretation: DAI-A 70/04,
October 2009.
Rooney, Peter. "Primitivism in the Short Stories of Ernest
Hemingway: A Tripartite Study:' DP2011 ROON-University College
Cork, Ireland, April 2011.
BOOK REVIEWS
[Books are arranged alphabetically by author. Reviews are also
arranged alphabetically by author and follow the book's bolded
citation.]
Bak, John S. Homo americanus: Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams,
and Queer Masculinities. Madison, WI: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2010.
Magill, D.E. "Book Review." CHOICE 48.9 (May 2011): 1687.
Walker, Julia A. and David Roark. "Book Review" Theatre
Journal 63.2 (May 2011): 297-299.
Bouchard, Donald F. Hemingway: So Far From Simple. Amherst, NY:
Prometheus Books, 2010.
Fleming, Robert E. "Reviews." North Dakota Quarterly
76.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2009): 195-196.
Nash, Charles C. "Hemingway: So Far From Simple." Library
Journal 135.10 (June 2010): 86.
Bruccoli, Matthew J. with Judith S. Baughman, eds. Hemingway and
the Mechanism of Fame. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2006.
Junkins, Donald. "Reviews." North Dakota Quarterly 76.1-2
(Winter/Spring 2009): 205-209.
Calabi, Silvio, Steve Helsley, and Roger Sanger. Hemingway's
Guns: The Sporting Arms of Ernest Hemingway. Camden, ME: Shooting
Sportsman Books, 2010.
Martin, Lawrence H. "Book Reviews:' The Hemingway Review
30.2 (Spring 2011): 123-126.
Curnutt, Kirk and Gail D. Sinclair, eds. Key West Hemingway: A
Reassessment. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2009.
Bazin, Victoria. "Hemingway: A Reassessment." Modern
Language Review 106.1 (January 2011): 249-250.
Donaldson, Scott. Fitzgerald & Hemingway: Works and Days. New
York: Columbia UP, 2009.
Anon. "Book Review." Publishers Weekly 256.22 (June
2009): 41-42.
Flora, Joseph M. Reading Hemingway's Men without Women:
Glossary and Commentary. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2008.
Davison, Richard Allan. "Review." North Dakota Quarterly
76.1-2 (Winter/ Spring 2009): 197-199.
Fleming, Robert M. "Reviews." North Dakota Quarterly
76.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2009): 192-194.
Fortuny, Kim. American Writers in Istanbul: Melville, Twain,
Hemingway, Dos Passos, Bowles, Algren, Baldwin, and Settle. New York:
Syracuse UP, 2009.
Orr, Jeffrey. "The Absent City: Istanbul and American
Writing." American Literary History 23.1 (Spring 2011): 181-188.
Frederking, Lauretta Conklin, ed. Hemingway on Politics and
Rebellion. New York: Routledge, 2010.
Fleming, Robert E. "Book Reviews" The Hemingway Review
30.2 (Spring 2011): 120-123.
Goodheart, Eugene, ed. Critical Insights: Ernest Hemingway.
Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2010.
Fazioli, Carol. "Book Reviews." School Library Journal
56.4 (April 2010): 68.
Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition. Eds.
Patrick and Sean Hemingway. New York: Scrihner's, 2009.
King, Brendan. "A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition."
TLS 5574 (1/29/2010): 27.
Robson, Leo. "Glints of a Rising Son." New Statesman
139.5009 (2010): 48-49.
Moreira, Peter. Hemingway on the China Front: His World War II Spy
Mission with Martha Gellhorn. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2006.
Junkins, Donald. "Reviews." North Dakota Quarterly 76.1-2
(Winter/Spring 2009): 209-218.
Mort, Terry. The Hemingway Patrols: Ernest Hemingway and His Hunt
for the U-Boats. New York: Scribner, 2009.
Anon. "Book Review." Publishers Weekly 256.22 (June
2009): 42.
Ondaatje, Christopher. Hemingway in Africa: The Last Safari.
Toronto, Canada: HarperCollins, 2003.
Fleming, Robert E. "Reviews" North Dakota Quarterly
76.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2009): 194-195.
Ott, Mark P. Ernest Hemingway and the Geography of Memory. Kent,
OH: Kent State UP, 2010.
Solomon, R.H. "Book Review" CHOICE 48.4 (December 2010):
680.
Reef, Catherine. Ernest Hemingway: A Writer's Life. New York:
Clarion, 2009.
Anon. "Reviews." Social Education 74.3 (May/June 2010):
4.
Hunt, Jonathan. "Review." Horn Book Magazine 85.5
(September-October 2009): 583.
Stoner, Theresa. "Ernest Hemingway: A Writer's
Life?' Library Journal 134.19 (2009): 42.
Stoneback, H.R. Reading Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises:
Glossary and Commentary. Kent, Ohio: Kent State UP, 2007.
Fleming, Robert E. "Reviews." North Dakota Quarterly
76.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2009): 191-192.
Trogdon, Robert W. The Lousy Racket: Hemingway, Scribners, and the
Business of Literature. Kent OH: Kent State UP, 2007.
Holt, Joseph. "Reviews." North Dakota Quarterly 76.1-2
(Winter/Spring 2009): 223-224.
Wagner-Martin, Linda, ed. Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism.
East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2009.
Haselmo, Zak. "Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism."
North Dakota Quarterly 76.1-2 (Winter/Spring 2009): 161-168.
FOREIGN SCHOLARSHIP
Augustin, Annegret, Achim Hoppner, and Axel Wostry. Bedeutende
Personen der Weltgeschichte [...] Kemal Ataturk, Pablo Picasso, Charlie
Chaplin, Ernest Hemingway. Mtinchen Audio Media, 2010. [German]
Brunn, Stefani. Sherwood Anderson's and Ernest
Hemingway's Stories of Initiation. Mtinchen GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2011.
[German]
Cardona Morales, Cezanne. "San Juan nunca se acaba."
Torte: Revista de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 14.53-54 (2009):
421-429. [Spanish]
De Cortanze, Gerard. Le roman de Hemingway. Monaoo: Rocher, 2011.
[French]
Humbert, Denis. Le sang est plus epais que l'encre: roman.
Paris: Presses de la cite, 2011. [French]
Knappe, Sven. Grosse Frauen und Manner der Weltgeschichte [...]
Hannibal, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ernest Hemingway, Katharina II., Roald
Amundsen, Konfuzius, Winston Churchill, Charlie Chaplin. Stuttgart,
Deutschland; Ztirich, Schweiz; Wien, Osterreich: Reader's Digest,
2010. [German]
Lin, Guangze. "de xu shu yu shi fen xi." Yangtze River
Academic 4 (2009): 2832. [Chinese]
Michel, Luce. Ernest Hemingway a 20 ans: un homme blesse. Vauvert:
Au diable vauvert, 2011. [French]
Moriani, Gianni. II Veneto di Hemingway. Crocetta del Montello:
Antiga, 2011. [Italian]
Muller, Kurt. "Psychodrama und 'Talking Cure':
Gesprach und Selbstgesprach in Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell
Tolls." In Seelengesprache. Eds.
Beatrice Jakobs and Volker Kapp. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot,
2008. 183199. [German]
Nigro, Raffaele. Fernanda e gli elefanti bianchi di Hemingway.
Milano: Rizzoli, 2010. [Italian]
Vasilevskii, Boris. Kot, spiaschii na Kheminguee. Druzhba Narodov:
Nezavisimyi Literaturno-Khudozhe Strennyi i Obshchestvenno-Politicheskii
Ezhemesiachnik 6 (2009). [Russian]
Vauthier, Benedicte. "Transfiguraciones y juegos de las
escrituras del yo en Paris (Ernest Hemingway, Miguel de Unamuno, Enrique
Vila-Matas)" Hispanogalia: Revista Hispanofrancesa de Pensamiento,
Literatura y Arte 3 (2006/2007): 181-194. [Spanish]
Xiong, Wei and Tiejun Hou. "Qing jiao yu biao fa yu Meiguo wen
xue zhong de jiu shu zhu ti-Yi Bai jing, 'Hai shang pian zhou'
he Lao ren yu hal wei li" Foreign Literature Studies/Wai Guo Wen
Xue Yan Jiu 30.3 (June 2008): 64-69. [Chinese]
Yamaguchi, Jun. Papa & Capa: Ernest Hemingway by Robert Capa.
Tokyo: Hankyukomyunikeshonzu, 2011. [Japanese]
KELLI A. LARSON
University of St. Thomas