New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

by Benson, Jackson J.

• ISBN13: 9780822310679
• ISBN10: 0822310678
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-01-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

With an Overview by Paul Smith and a Checklist to Hemingway Criticism, 19751990New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingwayis an all-new sequel to Bensonrs"s highly acclaimed 1975 book, which provided the first comprehensive anthology of criticism of Ernest Hemingwayrs"s masterful short stories. Since that time the availability of Hemingwayrs"s papers, coupled with new critical and theoretical approaches, has enlivened and enlarged the field of American literary studies. This companion volume reflects current scholarship and draws together essays that were either published during the past decade or written for this collection. The contributors interpret a variety of individual stories from a number of different critical points of view-from a Lacanian reading of Hemingwayrs"s "After the Storm" to a semiotic analysis of "A Very Short Story" to an historical-biographical analysis of "Old Man at the Bridge." In identifying the short story as one of Hemingwayrs"s principal thematic and technical tools, this volume reaffirms a focus on the short story as Hemingwayrs"s best work. An overview essay covers Hemingway criticism published since the last volume, and the bibliographical checklist to Hemingway short fiction criticism, which covers 1975 to mid-1989, has doubled in size.Contributors.Debra A. Moddelmog, Ben Stotzfus, Robert Scholes, Hubert Zapf, Susan F. Beegel, Nina Baym, William Braasch Watson, Kenneth Lynn, Gerry Brenner, Steven K. Hoffman, E. R. Hagemann, Robert W. Lewis, Wayne Kvam, George Monteiro, Scott Donaldson, Bernard Oldsey, Warren Bennett, Kenneth G. Johnston, Richard McCann, Robert P. Weeks, Amberys R. Whittle, Pamela Smiley, Jeffrey Meyers, Robert E. Fleming, David R. Johnson, Howard L. Hannum, Larry Edgerton, William Adair, Alice Hall Petry, Lawrence H. Martin Jr., Paul Smith

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	xiii
The Art of the Short Story	1	(16)
Ernest Hemingway
I Critical Approaches
Narrative Voice
The Unifying Consciousness of a Divided Conscience: Nick Adams as Authors of In Our Time	17	(16)
Debra A. Moddelmong
Semiotic Analysis
Decoding Papa: ``A Very Short Story'' As Work and Text	33	(15)
Robert Scholes
Lacanian Reading
Hemingway's ``After the Storm'': A Lacanian Reading*	48	(10)
Ben Stoltzfus
Structralist Interpretation
Structuralism and Interpretation: Ernest Hemingway's ``Cat in the Rain''	58	(15)
Oddvar Holmesland
Textual Analysis
``That Always Absent Something Else'': ``A Natural History of the Dead'' and Its Discarded Coda	73	(23)
Susan F. Beegel
Reception Theory
Reflection vs. Daydream: Two Types of the Implied Reader in Hemingway's Fiction	96	(16)
Hubert Zapf
Feminist Perspective
``Actually, I Felt Sorry for the Lion''* [``The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber'']	112	(9)
Nina Baym
Historical-Biographical Analysis
``Old Man at the Bridge'': The Making of a Short Story	121	(16)
William Braasch Watson
II Story Technique and Themes
Hemingway's Apprentice Fiction: 1919-1921	137	(12)
Paul Smith
The Troubled Fisherman [``Big Two-Hearted River'']	149	(7)
Kenneth S. Lynn
From ``Sepi Jingan'' to ``The Mother of a Queen'': Hemingway's Three Epistemologic Formulas for Short Fiction*	156	(16)
Gerry Brenner
Nada and the Clean, Well-Lighted Place: The Unity of Hemingway's Short Fiction	172	(20)
Steven K. Hoffman
``Only Let the Story End As Soon As Possible'': Time-and-History in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time	192	(8)
E. R. Hagemann
``Long Time Ago Good, Now No Good'': Hemingway's Indian Stories*	200	(15)
Robert W. Lewis
III Story Interpretations
Hemingway's ``Banal Story''	215	(9)
Wayne Kvam
``This Is My Pal Bugs'': Ernest Hemingway's ``The Battler''	224	(5)
George Monteiro
Preparing for the End: Hemingway's Revisions of ``A Canary for One''	229	(9)
Scott Donaldson
El Pueblo Espanol: ``The Capital of the World''	238	(7)
Bernard Oldsey
The Poor Kitty and the Padrone and the Tortoise-shell Cat in ``Cat in the Rain''	245	(12)
Warren Bennett
Hemingway's ``The Denunciation'': The Aloof American	257	(9)
Kenneth G. Johnston
To Embrace or Kill: Fathers and Sons	266	(9)
Richard McCann
Wise-Guy Narrator and Trickster Out-Tricked in Hemingway's ``Fifty Grand''	275	(7)
Robert P. Weeks
A Reading of Hemingway's ``The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio''	282	(6)
Amberys R. Whittle
Gender-Linked Miscommunication in ``Hills Like White Elephants''	288	(12)
Pamela Smiley
Hemingway's Primitivism and ``Indian Camp''	300	(9)
Jeffrey Meyers
Hemingway's ``The Killers'': The Map and the Territory	309	(5)
Robert E. Fleming
``The Last Good Country'': Again the End of Something	314	(7)
David R. Johnson
Nick Adams and the Search for Light [``The Light of the World'']	321	(10)
Howard L. Hannum
``Nobody Ever Dies!'': Hemingway's Fifth Story of the Spanish Civil War	331	(10)
Larry Edgerton
Hemingway's ``Out of Season'': The End of the Line*	341	(6)
William Adair
Perversion and the Writer in ``The Sea Change''	347	(6)
Robert E. Fleming
Coming of Age in Hortons Bay: Hemingway's ``Up in Michigan''	353	(7)
Alice Hall Petry
Crazy in Sheridan: Hemingway's ``Wine of Wyoming'' Reconsidered	360	(15)
Lawrence H. Martin, Jr.
IV. An Overview of the Criticism
A Partial Review: Critical Essays on the Short Stories, 1976-1989*	375	(84)
Paul Smith
V A Comprehensive Checklist of Hemingway Short Fiction Criticism, Explication, and Commentary, 1975-1989
Books on Hemingway's Work Containing Discussion of the Short Stories	395	(7)
Articles, Books Devoted to Hemingway's Work, Books Not Exclusively Devoted to Hemingway, and Dissertations Containing Discussion of Several Hemingway Short Stories	402	(15)
Criticism, Explication, and Commentary on Individual Stories, Listed by Story---Including Specific Articles, Segments from Books on Hemingway's Work, and Segments from General Books	417	(42)
Notes and References	459	(48)
Notes on Contributors	507