Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
Public domain photograph of Ernest Hemingway
in American Red Cross Ambulance, Italy 1918
A selective list of online literary criticism 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 & Lighter Reading
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." Heath/Cengage.
"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.
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.
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." First page of article only. The English Journal 51 (Oct. 1962).
Fleming, Robert E. "The Endings of Hemingway's Garden of Eden." First page of article only. American Literature 61 (May, 1989).
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." First page of article only. American Literature, 44 (Nov., 1972).
Scholes, Robert. Transcript of a discussion on Hemingway with several scholars, 11/27/95. Professor Phillip Sipiora web site.
Sipiora, Phillip. Transcript of a scholarly discussion on "Narrative Strategies and Effects in Hemingway," with J. Phelan and Phillip Sipiora, 11/29/95, Professor Sipiora's web site.
Stewart, Matthew C. "Ernest Hemingway and World War I: Combatting recent psychobiographical reassessments, restoring the war." Papers on Language and Literature, Spring 2000.
Tellefsen, Blythe. "Rewriting the self against the National text: Ernest Hemingway's The Garden of Eden." Papers on Language and Literature, Winter 2000.
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.
Hemingway's Cuba
News article about the deterioration of Finca Vigía, Hemingway's home by the sea in Cuba, and efforts to preserve it. The International Herald Tribune, 15 Oct. 2004.
CNN news article about Hemingway's granddaughter Mariel Hemingway, who was amazed at how revered Hemingway is in Cuba.
A professor explores Hemingway's Cuba from a U of Delaware press release.
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.
About the Lost Generation of American expatriates in Paris following World War I, Hemingway's Paris of The Sun Also Rises, and A Moveable Feast. "Discover France" web site.
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].
Removed articles
Article in the Atlantic Monthly on Hemingway's "uneven achievement," by J. Atlas, October 1983.
Robert Manning recounts a visit to an aging Hemingway in Cuba. The Atlantic Monthly, August 1965.
http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/kennedy_awl/chapter11/objectives/deluxe-content.html A biographical introduction to Hemingway, from his early years to his suicide in 1961, from Addison Wesley Longman (removed).
http://catalog.knox.edu/archives/rare_books/hughes.htm Information about the Hughes Collection of rare and first editions of Hemingway's novels and works of other writers of the Lost Generation, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, John dos Passos, and Gertrude Stein. Knox College, Illinios (moved or removed).
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