Current Bibliography
- Current Bibliography
S. P. Bannigan
University of St. Thomas
Michaela Brownell
University of St. Thomas
Megan M. Miller
University of St. Thomas
Karena Schrempp
University of St. Thomas
[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: KaLarson1@stthomas.edu.]
BOOKS
Bradford, Richard. The Man Who Wasn't There: A Life of Ernest Hemingway. New York: I. B. Tauris, 2018. [Revisionist biography aimed at exposing the narcissistic and egomaniacal man behind the author's public persona. Bradford draws largely on unpublished correspondence to support his thesis that EH's mendacious nature and inability to differentiate reality from fantasy were well rooted by adolescence and out of control by the end of his life. Dismisses EH's modernist aesthetic, characterizing his fiction as a "perversely autobiographical" blend of falsehoods and self-delusions. Includes more than a dozen black-and-white photographs, bibliography, and index.]
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Donaldson, Scott. The Paris Husband: How It Really Was Between Ernest and Hadley Hemingway. New York: Simply Charly, 2018. [Biography of EH's first marriage to Hadley Richardson, exploring their complex relationship and its lasting impact on both the man and his work. Covers the couple's initial 1920 meeting in Chicago, subsequent courtship, early years in Paris, and eventual divorce. In reconstructing their relationship, Donaldson focuses on the significance of the lost manuscripts and EH's serial attraction to other women. Draws on letters, notebooks, unpublished manuscripts, and other sources. Lacks an index and bibliography.]
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ESSAYS
Avitzour, Daniel. "Why Does Jig Smile? Readings of 'Hills Like White Elephants.'" Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 27 (2018): 48-77. [Research study on the perception and recognition of multiple interpretations of the story's ambiguous ending by first-time readers. Avitzour finds that "ordinary" readers exposed to scholarly opinion regarding the pregnancy and fate of the couple's relationship responded differently from those who interpreted the story's ending on their own. Offers a brief explanation for Jig's final smile, suggesting that she misled the man about being pregnant to test him and the strength of their relationship.]
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Beall, John. "Bugs and Sam: Nick Adams's Guides in Hemingway's 'The Battler' and 'The Killers.'" The Hemingway Review 38.2 (Spring 2019): 42-58.
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—. "Pound, Hemingway, and the Inquest Series." Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 44 (2017): 173-204. [Reconstructs the complex and interrelated composition and publication of EH's in our time and Pound's A Draft of XVI Cantos (1925). Beall details Pound's supervision and editing of the Inquest series for Three Mountains Press, a project aimed at exploring modernist prose in the wake of Joyce's Ulysses (1922). Drawing on correspondence, biographies, manuscripts, and other sources, Beall speculates on Pound's influence on the young EH's developing modernist aesthetic through his editing of in our time, which appeared as the final volume in the series. Points to EH's extensive revisions of chapter 16, Maera's death narrative, as evidence of Pound's tutelage. Includes a discussion of the publisher's original design plans for the volume's cover and chapters.]
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Bishop, Andrew. "Wasted Bulls and Fungus-Ridden Fish: Waste, Travel, and Entitlement in Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises." The Hemingway Review 38.2 (Spring 2019): 27-41.
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Cardon, Lauren S. "The Modern Woman and the Slim Silhouette." Fashion and Fiction: Self-Transformation in Twentieth-Century American Literature. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2016. 108-36. [Opens by contextualizing...
