San Antonio College Library

The short stories of Hemingway not only have come to be considered the finest achievements of this writer's genius, but also have taken their place as one of the most important contributions to the evolution of fiction. In this volume, Jackson J. Benson has assembled thirty of the best essays on Hemingway's stories, essays that explore his art in all its depth and breadth. The editor has also provided an overview essay and a comprehensive checklist...

A series of articles examining the life and works of the American writer, including discussion of "A Farewell to Arms," "The Sun Also Rises," and "To Have and Have Not."

Hemingway burst on the literary scene in the 1920s with spare, penetrating short stories and brilliant novels. Soon he was held as a standard for modern writers. Meanwhile, he used his celebrity to create a persona like the stoic,macho heroes of his fiction. After a decline during the 1930s and 1940s, he came roaring back with The Old Man and the Sea in 1952. Two years later he received the Nobel Prize. While his popularity waxed and waned during...

This volume analyzes the short story writing of American writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). The author attempts to illuminate Hemingway's's methods of construction and to show how craft criticism complements and enhances cultural literary studies. This study presents close readings of representative Hemingway short stories such as "Soldier's Home," "A Canary for One," "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen," and "Big Two-Hearted River." The author's examinations...

A collection of critical essays about Ernest Hemingway's most popular works.

The central thesis of this book, which explores the relationship between Hemingway the man and Hemingway the author, proposes that his chief protagonists acted out psychological problems the author himself faced.