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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."

Arthur Waldhorn discusses Hemingway's sense of the world as well as his writing style. He also analyses, in chronological order, the writings - beginning with the early stories and sketches - tracing major patterns that recur throughout Hemingway's career. His approach to each book is a critical examination of its achievements and failures.

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.

William Faulkner has long been considered the great racial interrogator of the early twentieth-century South. In "Hemingway, Race, and Art", author Marc Kevin Dudley suggests that Ernest Hemingway not only shared Faulkner's racial concerns but extended them beyond the South to encompass the entire nation. Though Hemingway wrote extensively about Native Americans and African Americans, always in the back of his mind was Africa. Dudley sees Hemingway's...

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

In a close critical analysis of five of Ernest Hemingway's novels and a number of his most important short stories, Professor Benson provides a fascinating new view of his work. The novels discussed are The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Across the River and into the Trees, and The Old Man and the Sea. Hemingway's art of self-defense, which Professor Benson refers to in his subtitle, was, as he demonstrates in his perceptive...