Recently added articles from The Hemingway Review:
"We live in a country where nothing makes any difference": the queer sensibility of A Farewell to Arms.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... This essay argues that a queer sensibility is central to A Farewell to Arms, underwriting the connections between the characters, including the desire that binds Catherine and Frederic. This sensibility is informed by changing views--some of them quite radical for the time--about marriage, ...
"Eyes the same color as the sea": Santiago's expatriation from Spain and ethnic otherness in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea.(Ernest Hemingway)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Hemingway often used expatriation as a literary device, yet critics have overlooked the fact that Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea is an expatriate. Born in Spain's Canary Islands, Santiago moved to Cuba as a young man; this circumstance has a significant impact on his social condition ....
"There were many Indians in the story": hidden history in Hemingway's "big two-hearted river".(Ernest Hemingway)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The essay considers the importance of hidden history in "Big Two-Hearted River" and what Hemingway may have had in mind in creating a landscape that is white on the surface yet penetrated by Indian presences underneath. Hidden inscriptions of Indianness have to be searched for in the text ...
"I also, am in Michigan": pastoralism of mind in "Big Two-Hearted River".(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... This article examines "Big Two-Hearted River" in terms of Leo Marx's "machine in the garden" theory of American pastoralism. Nick's reaction to the swamp appears, paradoxically, to position it as the "machine," or counterforce to the pastoral ideal and the illusion of escape--in Nick's ...
The conflict of "being gypsy" in For Whom the Bell Tolls.(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Ernest Hemingway caricatures both Rafael and Pilaf as "gypsies" in order to "assimilate" the experience of living in Spain for the American character Robert Jordan and for a Western, non-Romani readership. While this assimilated Spanish experience does ...
"A little crazy": psychiatric diagnoses of three hemingway women characters.(Ernest Hemingway, Catherine Barkley, Brett Ashley, Maria)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Although the psyches of Hemingway's heroes--Nick Adams, Jake Barnes, Frederic Henry, and all the rest have been thoroughly analyzed, the psychological state of Hemingway's women characters has not received similar treatment. In fact, three of the most important Hemingway women suffer from ...
Redefining remate: Hemingway's professed approach to writing A Moveable Feast.(NOTES)(Ernest Hemingway)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... For nearly fifty years, Hemingway scholars have used the term remate to describe Hemingway's approach to writing A Moveable Feast. This essay traces the critical consensus that remate is a jai alai term that means a two-wall shot or a shot "by reflection" to a probable mistranslation of ...
Hemingway, The Fifth Column, and the "dead angle".(NOTES)(Ernest Hemingway)(Critical essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... In a letter first published on 10 February 2008 in the New York Times, Hemingway describes some of the conditions under which he composed The Fifth Column during the Spanish Civil War. In the letter, he describes "rooms 112 and 113" of the Hotel Florida ("where we lived") as being in a ...
The Gun and the Pen: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and the Fiction of Mobilization.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... The Gun and the Pen: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and the Fiction of Mobilization. By Keith Gandal. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 271 pp. Cloth $55.00 To our significant if doomed scholarly efforts to unknot the complex tangle of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, ...
Teaching Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Teaching Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. Edited by Lisa Tyler. Kent, OH: The Kent State University Press, 2008. 257 pp. Paperback $36.00. What a remarkable moment to introduce A Farewell to Arms to students. The novel is quite possibly more relevant today than when it was ...
Hemingway's The Dangerous Summer: The Complete Annotations.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Hemingway's The Dangerous Summer: The Complete Annotations. By Miriam B. Mandel. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2008. xxv + 370 pp. Cloth: $100.00. "'I started it all, but I doubt if it would have gone quite so far off the track if Hemingway hadn't come on the scene and, as ...
Current bibliography.
Mar 22, 2009; ... [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 ...
Letter.(Letter to the editor)
Mar 22, 2009; ... To the Editor: In the Fall 2008 Hemingway Review Bert Bender begins an article by writing of his having been in one of Harry Burn's English classes at the University of Washington in the Fall of 1964. Professor Burns of course is part-model of the MacWalsey character in To Have ...
Hemingway Society International Conference.(BULLETIN BOARD)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Pack your bags! We're going to Lausanne for the 14th International Hemingway Society Conference. The 14th International Hemingway Society Conference will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland from June 25 to July 3, 2010. The sessions will convene on the beautiful campus of the University of ...
American Literature Association & Modern Language Association panels.(BULLETIN BOARD)(Hemingway Foundation and Society sponsors American Literature Association & Modern Language Association panels)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... The Hemingway Foundation and Society sponsors two panels each year at both the American Literature Association conference and the Modern Language Association conference. To see a list ...
William P. Corrigan fellowship for study of Hemingway and Cuba.(BULLETIN BOARD)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... Thanks to a generous endowment from the William P. Corrigan Family, a $1,000 annual fellowship has been created, open to all scholars (undergraduate, graduate, independent, and professors at all ranks), to support projects of any sort that explore Hemingway's Cuban connections ....
Smith-Reynolds founders fellowships.(BULLETIN BOARD)(Hemingway Society Paul Smith and Michael Reynolds fellowship)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... The Smith-Reynolds Committee encourages submissions for the Smith-Reynolds Founders Fellowships. Established by the Hemingway Society to honor the memories of past presidents Paul Smith and Michael Reynolds, these fellowships support research on Ernest Hemingway by graduate students, ...
Kennedy Library Hemingway grants.(BULLETIN BOARD)(Brief article)
Mar 22, 2009 ... The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation annually awards up to $5,000 in travel grants (individual awards are limited to $1,000) to support research in the library's Hemingway Collection. Applications for the grants are available at http://www.jfklibrary.org/ehgrants.htm. For further ...
Pen/Hemingway prize keynote address delivered at the John F. Kennedy library 30 March 2008.(Lois Lowry and Alice Hoffmann)(Speech)
Sep 22, 2008; ... Each year the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and PEN/New England award the PEN/Hemingway prize for the year's best first work of fiction. The award is presented at a gala reception at the John F. Kennedy Library, home of the Hemingway Collection, and a distinguished author delivers the ...
Hemingway's the fifth column, fifth columnism, and the Spanish Civil War.(Ernest Hemingway)(Critical essay)
Sep 22, 2008; ... The central issue in Hemingway's play, The Fifth Column, is its moral core, which determines whether the work is political propaganda or a political morality play. The work, however, is too morally confused to be either. This confusion is the fifth column, the idea of an enemy within ...