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, MN55105-1096. E-Mail: Kalarson1@stthomas.edu.]

BOOKS

Plath, James. Historic Photos of Ernest Hemingway. Nashville, TN: Turner, 2009. [Two hundred well-chosen black-and-white photographs coupled with informative captions provide a pictorial biography of EH from Oak Park to Ketchum. Concludes with extensive documentation for each photograph.]

Reef, Catherine. Ernest Hemingway: A Writer's Life. New York: Clarion, 2009. [Biography geared to young adults. Captures EH's life from Oak Park to Ketchum. Numerous quotations from friends, family, and the author himself, along with black-and-white photographs mark the passing of years. Concludes with a selected bibliography and list of major works.]

Wagner-Martin, Linda, ed. Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2009. [Collection of mostly reprinted essays on Hemingway's Writing. Essays date from 1992 to the present, with the majority published after 2001. Includes two previously unpublished essays by John J. Fenstermaker and Susan Beegel (annotated alphabetically under ESSAYS). This collection is entirely different from Wagner-Martin's 1998 'Seven Decades].

ESSAYS

Beegel, Susan F. "Bulletin Board." The Hemingway Review 28.2 (Spring 2009): 159-160.

--. "Thor Heyerdahl's Kon: Tiki and Hemingway s Return to Primitivism in The Old Man and the Sea." In Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism. Ed. Linda Wagner-Martin. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2009. 513-551. [Parallel reading of both texts, suggesting that EH's return to primitivism in OMATS (1952) may have been influenced by the immense popularity of the 1950 translation of Heyerdahl's 1948 narrative. Examines similarities in subject matter, arguing that the "back to nature" philosophy of both texts appealed to a modern generation overwhelmed by advancements in technology. Simplistic escape from civilization via the sea provides the heroes with a comforting sense of self-reliance and solitude. And yet their detailed environmental observations reveal not only their intimacy with the natural world but also their deep understanding of how that natural world might serve to measure man's progress away from nature's violence.]

Berman, Ronald. Translating Modernism: Fitzgerald and Hemingway. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2009.

Pp. 52-63: "Hemingway: Thinking about Cezanne." [Surveys the history of Cezanne criticism, discussing the artist's influence through light, color, and form on EH's landscapes. Draws examples from the Irati River passage of SAR and the description of nature in "Big Two-Hearted River."]

Pp. 64-75: "Hemingway's Michigan Landscapes." [Reprinted from The Hemingway Review 27.1 (Fall 2007): 39-54.]

Bond, Jenny and Chris Sheedy. "For Whom the Bell Tolls." In Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara?: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books. New York: Penguin, 2008. 110-117. [Biographical essay with a brief synopsis of FWTBT. Geared to a general audience.]

Bredendick, Nancy. "Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon from a Liminalist Perspective." The Trellis Papers 3. Eds. Manuel Aguirre and Belen Piqueras. Madrid, Spain: Gateway P, 2007. 3-12. [After defining the dualist and transitional nature of liminality, Bredendick applies those perimeters to DIA, a work that juxtaposes bullfighting with the fine arts. She examines how EH blends both a literary and documentary style in his careful balance of aficionado and non-aficionado cultures. Focuses on the work's paratexts (elements outside of the main text, e.g. title, frontispiece, dust jacket), the narrator's conversations with the Old Lady, Belmonte's art of toreo, Faulkner's writing, and El Greco's painting. Concludes that much in DIA "that is apparently extraneous and irrelevant functions, obliquely and poetically, as a rhetorical tool to persuade and inform, and to bring readers to an appreciation of the art of bullfighting by bridging the gap between whatever idea about it they bring with them to the book and the perspective on it held by a competent aficionado."]

Del Gizzo, Suzanne. "Redefining Remate: Hemingway's Professed Approach to Writing A Moveable Feast." The Hemingway Review 28.2 (Spring 2009): 121-126.

Fenstermaker, John J. "In Our Time. Women's Presence(s) and the Importance of Being Helen)' In Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism. Ed. Linda Wagner-Martin. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2009. 303-321. [Surveys the presence and absence of female characters in light of the larger themes of violence, miscommunication, and loss of control that permeates IOT. Argues that while Helen of "Cross-Country Snow" may be physically absent from the story, her role is critical in a text strewn with ignored, misunderstood, and traumatized women. "Helen images hope for this generation by helping realize a desideratum long sought in these tales--a fruitful male/female relationship."]

Gallagher, Mary Beth. "A Sea of Possibilities: Ernest Hemingway's 'The Sea Change)" In This Watery World: Humans and the Sea. Eds. Vartan P. Messier and Nandita Batra. Mayaguez, Puerto Rico: College English Association-Caribbean Chapter, 2007. 65-70. [Close reading focusing on the sea's thematic connection to change. The backdrop of a feminine sea, suggesting mysterious depths awaiting exploration and unlimited potential for new creation and evolution, enhances the woman's desire to have a lesbian affair.]

Hassani-Nasab, Nima. "From Hemingway to Borges: Literary Adaptations in Iranian Cinema)' Film International: Iranian Film Quarterly 11-12 (Summer 2005): 30-37. [Not seen.]

Herlihy, Jeffrey. "'Eyes the Same Color as the Sea': Santiago's Expatriation from Spain and Ethnic Otherness in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea." The Hemingway Review 28.2 (Spring 2009): 25-44.

Larson, Kelli A. "Current Bibliography." The Hemingway Review 28.2 (Spring 2009): 148-157.

MacDonald, Michael John IV. "Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms." The Explicator 67.1 (Fall 2008): 45-48. [Calls for an extension of Carlos Baker's classic reading of the novel's binary structure of home and not-home to include the normal (home) and absurd (not-home). As the plot unfolds, "Hemingway produces a dichotomy where a sense of normalcy and structure is an illusion and the reality is absurd and chaotic."]

McWhirter, David. "Fish Stories: Revising Masculine Ritual in Eudora Welty's 'The Wide Net.'" Mississippi Quarterly (April 2009): 35-58. [Examines Welty's revision and parody of modernist masculinity in her 1942 story "The Wide Net." Treats the story as a response to male contemporaries such as Eliot, Faulkner, and EH who consistently wrote on the theme of men living without women. McWhirter explores Nick Adams's need for control and flight from women's reproductive functions in several IOT stories, particularly "Indian Camp" and "Big Two-Hearted River."

Mandel, Miriam B. "When the Liminal Becomes the Center: The Case of Ernest Hemingway." Liminal Poetics: Studies in Liminality and Literature 7. Ed. Belen Piqueras. Madrid, Spain: Gateway P, 2008. 41-62. [Begins by defining the intermediate or transitional nature of liminality, and then applies that critical lens to EH's creation of liminal space through language and genre. Mandel discusses EH's technique of hybridization (e.g. blending English with Spanish or Italian) to create simultaneously a sense of the foreign and accessible in a number of texts, including "Hills Like White Elephants,' "Che Ti Dice la Patria" "The Capital of the World" and FWTBT. Also examines EH's blending of multiple genres (e.g. fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drawing) in a single work such as DIA. Concludes by examining the liminality of three short stories, "Out of Season," "Cat in the Rain," and "Hills Like White Elephants."]

Melling, Philip. "'There Were Many Indians in the Story': Hidden History in Hemingway's 'Big Two-Hearted River." The Hemingway Review 28.2 (Spring 2009): 45-65.

Moddelmog, Debra A. "'We Live in a Country Where Nothing Makes Any Difference': The Queer Sensibility of A Farewell to Arms." The Hemingway Review 28.2 (Spring 2009): 7-24.

Moreira, Peter. "Hemingway at War." Military History 26.1 (April/May 2009): 28-35. [Biographical account of EH's well-known war experiences, beginning with his 1918 wounding in Italy and concluding with his journalistic exploits during WWII. Geared to a general audience.]

Murad, David. "The Conflict of 'Being Gypsy' in For Whom the Bells Tolls." The Hemingway Review 28.2 (Spring 2009): 87-104.

Nolan, Charles J. Jr. "'A Little Crazy': Psychiatric Diagnoses of Three Hemingway Women Characters." The Hemingway Review 28.2 (Spring 2009): 105-120.

North, Michael. "Ernest Hemingway: Media Relations. Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word. New York: Oxford UP, 2005. 186-207. [Attempts to set the record straight concerning the influence of EH's early apprenticeship in journalism on his later prose style. Chronicles EH's early writing career, including his often overlooked position at the Cooperative Commonwealth in public relations/advertising. Discusses the creation of EH's public persona and the author's relationship to modernism and the rise of consumerism.]

O'Brien, Sarah Mary. "'I, Also, Am in Michigan': Pastoralism of Mind in Hemingway's 'Big Two-Hearted River.'" The Hemingway Review 28.2 (Spring 2009): 66-86.

Ott, Mark P. "Ernest Hemingway's Caribbean Gulf Stream Frontier: An Evolving Ecological Perspective." This Watery World: Humans and the Sea. Eds. Vartan P. Messier and Nandita Batra. Mayagiiez, Puerto Rico: College English Association-Caribbean Chapter, 2007. 71-91. [Ecological approach tracing EH's complex and evolving perspective on the Gulf Stream. Initially, as evidenced in early magazine articles and THHN, EH saw the Stream as a frontier to be conquered. As his interest in and knowledge of the Gulf Stream grew over years, his vision transformed, culminating in the view depicted in OMATS, of the Stream as a harmonious Eden with rejuvenating powers.]

Phelan, James. "Interlacings of Narrative and Lyric: Ernest Hemingway's 'A Clean Well-Lighted Place.'" Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2007. 151-165. [Revision of original essay entitled "The Rhetoric and Ethics of Lyric Narrative: Hemingway's A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" appearing in Frame 17 (2004): 5-21. Revisits the much debated controversy about the dialogue between the two waiters, arguing that resolution of the issue lies in examining the second half of the story. Supports Scribners' 1965 textual emendation that has the older waiter introducing the concept of "nothing" into the story.]

Ransford, Annie. "Biographical Perspective: Hemingway and Roethke Both Danced 'My Papa's Waltz.'" Midwestern Miscellany 36 (Spring/Fall 2008): 65-79. [Opens by noting similarities in subject matter, composing habits, and writing style between the two authors. Primarily focuses on each writer's difficult relationship with his parents, rejecting all they stood for while at the same time desperately seeking their approval. Draws briefly upon "Big Two-Hearted River," "Indian Camp" "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," and "Fathers and Sons."]

Rawa, Julia. "Modern Landscapes, Modern Labyrinths: Ways Of Escape in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises." Florida Studies: Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Florida College English Association. Eds. Claudia Slate and Keith Huneycutt. Newcastle Upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2008. 91-109. [Not seen.]

Schwartz, Stephen. "The Paradoxes of Film and the Recovery of Historical Memory: Vicente Aranda's Works on the Spanish Civil War." Film History: An International Journal 20.4 (2008): 501-507. [Brief reference to Sam Wood's 1943 production of FWTBT, criticizing the film's excessive length and slowness.]

See, Sam. "Fast Books Read Slow: The Shapes of Speed in Manhattan Transfer and The Sun Also Rises" Journal of Narrative Theory 38.3 (Fall 2008): 342-377. [Comparison study analyzing the novels' ambivalent responses to modernist technology. While both authors recognized the value of speed, they also held conflicting views on the negative effects of dehumanization created by speed culture. Discusses how each author stylistically, structurally, and thematically creates space to slow reader progress and thus promote reflection and deliberation within their narratives. Concludes that "Dos Passos and Hemingway maintain critical distance from the technologies they use not 'to conquer' or 'to annihilate' but to create 'time and space.'"]

Sullivan, Hannah. "Modernist Excision and Its Consequences." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 102.4 (December 2008): 501-519. [Discusses the method of excision (revision via textual erasure) in modernist and imagist literature more generally before turning to a specific examination of the practice in SAR. Provides a compositional history of the novel and warns against the possibility of textual inconsistencies resulting from this method of revision.]

Tomkins, David. "The 'Lost Generation' and the Generation of Loss: Ernest Hemingway's Materiality of Absence and the The Sun Also Rises." Modern Fiction Studies 54.4 (Winter 2008): 744-765. [Reads SAR's thematic focus on loss as a renunciation of Stein's "lost generation" comment and the basis for EH's own bid for artistic liberation from his mentors. Explores the novel's emphasis on material objects, specifically what is lost or absent, in relation to how these losses help to define that generation in the aftermath of WWI. Treats the impotent Jake Barnes as a modernist revision of the traditional gunslinger hero of 19th and early 20th century American literature.]

Tsuji, Hideo. "Queer Realism vs. Hardboiled Modernism: Henry James's 'The Beast in the Jungle' and Ernest Hemingway's 'The Battler.'" Studies in English Literature 49 (2008): 69-86. [Tsuji contends that EH's plain style is a reaction against the effeminacy of 19th century Realism. Offers a queer reading focused on the performative nature of each text's style and challenges those identifying a homosexual theme in "The Battler" "to interrogate how such a reading can make the story more creative and imaginative."]

Updike, John. Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

Pp. 108-109: "Ernest Hemingway I." [Repririts 1999 speech on the occasion of his receipt of the Ernest Hemingway Literary Light Award. Comments on EH's legacy to all writers.]

Pp. 110: "Ernest Hemingway II." [Reprints 1999 entry originally published in American Characters: Selections from the National Portrait Gallery, Accompanied by Literary Portraits. Comments on EH's enduring influence on all generations of Americans.]

Vargish, Thomas. "War and Literature: A Reciprocity" War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities 20.1/2 (2008): 19-23. [Pedagogical approach using literature to teach the fundamentals of leadership to military officers. Draws on examples from The Iliad, Hamlet, and FTA. For FTA, Vargish focuses on how the personal (Henry's love for Catherine) impacts the professional (his performance as an officer).]

Washington, Gene. "Hemingway, The Fifth Column, and the 'Dead Angle.'" The Hemingway Review 28.2 (Spring 2009): 127-135.

Weber, Ronald. News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars. Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, 2006. 151-156, 170-171, 210-213, 217-220, and elsewhere. [Scattered references to EH's journalistic endeavors during the expatriate period. Suggests Paris-based correspondent Bill Bird as a model for Jake Barnes. Chronicles EH's friendship with Bird and other Paris correspondents and his irritation over the editing of "The Real Spaniard."]

DISSERTATIONS

Austad, Jonathan A. "Hemingway and Hitchcock: An Examination of the Aesthetic Modernity." DAI-A 69/07, January 2009.

Chung, Christopher Damien. "'Almost Unnamable': Suicide in the Modernist Novel." DAI-A 69/09, March 2009.

Cirino, Mark. "'Because I Think Deeper': Ernest Hemingway and the Burden of Consciousness." DAI-A 68/11, May 2008.

Croxall, Brian. "Discourse Accidents: Technology within the Stories of Trauma." DAI-A 69/10, April 2009.

Dodman, Trevor R. "Enduring Wounds: Locating Sites of Loss in World War I Fiction." DAI-A 68/11, May 2008.

Faust, Marjorie Ann Hollomon. "'The Great Gatsby' and its 1925 Contemporaries." DAI-A 69/04, October 2008.

Ho, Melanie. "Useful Fiction: Why Universities Need Middlebrow Literature." DAI-A 69/11, May 2009.

Ihara, Rachel. "Novels on the Installment Plan: American Authorship in the Age of Serial Publication, from Stowe to Hemingway." DAI-A 68/11, May 2008.

Jividen, Jill M. "Power of Attorney: Business and Friendship between Ernest Hemingway and Maurice J. Speiser." DAI-A 70/03, September 2009.

Lester, Jennifer D. "Literary Texts and the Problematic of Social Space." DAI-A 70/02, August-2009.

Lewis, Kelley Penfield. "Interviews at Work: Reading the 'Paris Review' Interviews 1953-1978" DAI-A 69/11, May 2009.

Manolov, Gueorgui V. "Elements of Narrative Discourse in Selected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway." DAI-A 69/04, October 2008.

Mintler, Catherine R. "Fashioning Identity: Consumption, Performativity and Passing in the Modernist Novel." DAI-A 69/09, March 2009.

Oliphant, Ashley Yarbrough. "Hemingway's Mixed Drinks: An Examination of the Varied Representation of Alcohol across the Author's Canon." DAI-A 68/12, June 2008.

Perry, Matthew David. "Exit Strategies: Reimagining Retreat in Modern American War Literature." DAI-A 69/07, January 2009.

Powell, Jason A. "A Humble Protest: A Literary Generation's Quest for the Heroic Self, 1917-1930." DAI-A 69/08, February 2009.

Radeva, Milena Todorova. "Philanthropy, the Welfare State, and Early Twentieth-Century Literature." DAI-A 69/10, April 2009.

Rogers, Andrew Ronald Mansell. "The Veteran Who Is, the Boy Who is No More: The Casualty of Identity in War Fiction" DAI-A 68/07, January 2008.

Rupert, Jennifer Jane. "Oscillating Wildly: Surrealist Women and the Ethics of Literary Modernism." DAI-A 69/05, November 2008.

Sanders, J'aime L. "The Art of Existentialism: E Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer and the American Existential Tradition." DAI-A 69/04, October 2008.

St. Pierre, Scott J. "Abnormal Tongues: Style and Sexuality in Modern Literature and Culture." DAI-A 69/09, March 2009.

Takayoshi, Ichiro. "Empire on Paper: Interventionist and Isolationist Literature in the United States, 1939-1941." DAI-A 69/05, November 2008.

BOOK REVIEWS

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

Gandal, Keith. The Gun and the Pen: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and the Fiction of Mobilization. Oxford UP, 2008.

Vernon, Alex. "Book Reviews." The Hemingway Review 28.2 (Spring 2009): 136-139.

Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition. Eds. Patrick and Sean Hemingway. New York: Scribner, 2009.

Hitchens, Christopher. "The Man in Full." Atlantic (June 2009): 83-87.

Mandel, Miriam B. Hemingway's The Dangerous Summer: The Complete Annotations. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow P, 2008.

Fruscione, Joseph. "Book Reviews." The Hemingway Review 28.2 (Spring 2009): 143-147.

Moreira,,Peter. Hemingway on the China Front: His WWII Spy Mission with Martha Gellhorn. Washington, DC: Potomac Books, 2006.

Miller, Randall M. "Book Reviews." Intelligence and National Security 23.1 (February 2008): 129-132.

Mort, Terry. The Hemingway Patrols: Ernest Hemingway and His Hunt for U-boats Aboard the Pilar. New York: Scribner, 2009.

Anon. "A Unique Biography of Ernest Hemingway's World War II Experience." Kirkus Reviews 77.11 (June 2009): 596.

Anon. "Review Nonfiction)' Publishers Weekly 256.22 (1 June 2009): 42.

North, Michael. Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth Century Word. New York: Oxford UP, 2005.

Barrett, Laura. "The Americas." Modern Fiction Studies 53.3 (Fall 2007): 596-599.

Plath, James. Historic Photos of Ernest Hemingway. Nashville, TN: Turner, 2009.

Lennes, Greg. "A Must-Have Book for Hemingway Fans." Sun-News (Las Cruces NM) (May 3 2009).

Reef, Catherine. Ernest Hemingway: A Writer's Life New York: Clarion, 2009.

Anon. "Children's Books." Kirkus Reviews 77.11 (June 2009): 611.

Engberg, Gillian. "New Biographies for Youth." Booklist 105.19/20 (15 June 2009): 82.

Trogdon, Robert W. The Lousy Racket: Hemingway, Scribners, and the Business of Literature. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2007.

Mandel, Miriam B. "Review." Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America 103.1 (2009): 123-125.

Tyler,-Lisa, ed. Teaching Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2008.

Cirino, Mark. "Book Reviews." The Hemingway Review 28.2 (Spring 2009): 140-143.

Wagner-Martin, Linda, ed. Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism. East Lansing: Michigan State UP, 2009.

Rovit, Earl. "Hemingway and the Common and Uncommon Reader)' Sewanee Review 117.3 (Summer 2009): liv-lviii.

Weber, Ronald. News of Paris: American Journalists in the City of Light Between the Wars. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006.

Schier, Donald, "Drinking and Writing in Paris in the Twenties and Thirties." Sewanee Review 117.1 (Winter 2009): x-xii.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE SCHOLARSHIP

Vila-Matas, Enrique. Ella era Hemingway No Soy Auster. Barcelona: Caudernos Alfabia, 2008. [Spanish, on "Cat in the Rain."]

KELLI A. LARSON

University of St. Thomas