Public domain photograph of Ernest Hemingway
in American Red Cross Ambulance, Italy 1918
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
A selective list of online literary criticism and analysis for Ernest Hemingway, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Web Sites
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introduction & biography
A Farewell to Arms. Selected for "The Big Read," Erika Koss, editor. Contents: Readers Guide contains Introduction, Historical Context, About the Author, Other Works/Adaptations, Discussion Questions, Bibliography; Teacher's Guide contains Schedule/Lesson Plans, Capstone Project Ideas, Essay Topics; and an audio radio program. National Endowment for the Arts.
The Kansas City Star, for which Hemingway was a newspaper reporter in 1917-1918, has published an extensive collection of articles on Hemingway on its web page "Hemingway at 100."
"Hemingway at 100." An interview with American writers Richard Ford, Nicholas Delbanco and A.J. Verdelle. Richard Ford remarks about Hemingway's spare style, "Hemingway often, because he was casual in talking about despair, because he was casual in letting his characters not say what they thought often, he didn't express for me enough. He was in many ways stingy with language and didn't express what I thought was literature's moral density and complexity accurately enough, or in a way, morally enough." Online NewsHour, PBS, July 21, 1999.
"Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises." C-Span, American Writers series, 2002.
O'Connor, Margaret Anne and John Alberti, eds. A Teacher's Guide to Hemingway prepares students to challenge their assumptions about the author, recommends reading "Hills Like White Elephants" as a preparation to A Farewell to Arms. "The disaster that was World War One was a defining experience for writers of Hemingway's generation, especially those, like Hemingway, who served in the military." From educational publisher Heath.
"Modernist Portraits: Ernest Hemingway." An Annenberg/PBS project.
"The Strange Saga of Gregory Hemingway." A compilation of news articles about Gregory Hemingway, Hemingway's youngest son, who was a transvestite.
Michael Palin's "Hemingway Adventure." Includes a section on Hemingway's connection with Spain, both from his interest in bullfighting and his book about the sport, Death in the Afternoon, and his service in Spain as an ambulance driver in the Spanish Civil War. Public Broadcasting Service.
Fleming, Robert E. "Ernest Hemingway." 10 March 2001. Literary Encyclopedia. Eds. Robert Clark, Emory Elliott, Janet Todd. An introduction to the poet, from a database that provides signed literary criticism by experts in their field, and is available to individuals for a reasonably-priced subscription [subscription service].
literary criticism
Bauer, Margaret D. "Forget the legend and read the work: Teaching two stories by Ernest Hemingway." On Hemingway's short stories "Indian Camp" and "Hills Like White Elephants." College Literature, Summer 2003 [first page only, blurred].
Beegel, Susan F. "'A Room on the Garden Side'": Hemingway's unpublished liberation of Paris." Studies in Short Fiction, Fall 1994.
Beegel, Susan F. "'Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates' and male taciturnity in Hemingway's 'A Day's Wait.'" Studies in Short Fiction, Fall 1993.
Berman, Ron. "Vaudeville philosophers: 'The Killers.'" Twentieth Century Literature, Spring 1999.
Cotter, Janet M. "'The Old Man and the Sea': An 'Open' Literary Experience." The English Journal 51 (Oct. 1962) [first page only, blurred].
Fleming, Robert E. "The Endings of Hemingway's Garden of Eden." American Literature 61 (May, 1989) [first page only, blurred].
Gaillard, Theodore L., Jr. "Hemingway's debt to Cezanne: new perspectives." [Paul Cezanne] Twentieth Century Literature, Spring 1999.
Grant, David. "Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants' and the tradition of the American in Europe." Studies in Short Fiction, Summer 1998.
Kobler, J.F. "'Soldier's Home' revisited: a Hemingway mea culpa." Studies in Short Fiction, Summer 1993.
Lamb, Robert Paul. "Hemingway and the creation of twentieth-century dialogue." Twentieth Century Literature, Winter 1996.
Lamb, Robert Paul. "Hemingway's critique of anti-Semitism: semiotic confusion in 'God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen.'" Studies in Short Fiction, Winter 1996.
Prizel, Yuri. "Hemingway in Soviet Literary Criticism." American Literature, 44 (Nov., 1972) [first page only, blurred].
Scholes, Robert. "Scholes on Hemingway." Transcript of a conversation with Heminway scholar Robert Scholes and others, 27 Nov. 1995, web published.
Sipiora, Phillip. Transcript of a discussion on "Narrative Strategies and Effects in Hemingway," with professors J. Phelan and Phillip Sipiora, 29 Nov. 1995, web published.
Stewart, Matthew C. "Ernest Hemingway and World War I: Combatting recent psychobiographical reassessments, restoring the war." Papers on Language and Literature, Spring 2000 [subscription service].
Tellefsen, Blythe. "Rewriting the self against the National text: Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden." Papers on Language and Literature, Winter 2000 [subscription service].
A New York Times news article on a "previously unknown" Hemingway tale about a bullfight, "My Life in the Bull Ring With Donald Ogden Stewart" and a correction by the Times when they realized the story was not unknown. From Sept. 27, 2004 and Oct. 1, 2004.
web sites
Nichols, Kathleen L. Jazz Age Culture, Part I: The Flapper Era, The Harlem Renaissance. Part II: Modernist Art, Harlem Renaissance Art. Part III: Harlem Renaissance Writers, Lost Generation Writers, Modernist Writers.
A NY Times web page on Hemingway with links to 28 Times reviews including early reviews of The Sun Also Rises (1926); A Farewell to Arms (1929); To Have and to Have Not (1937); For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940); The Old Man and the Sea (1951) for which he won the Nobel Prize; additional news articles about his hunting, fist fights, appearance at a bullfight in Spain; interviews; and his Times obituary. [Requires registration and intrusive software add-ons].
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