Hemingway, Ernest
(b. July 21, 1899; d. July 2, 1961) Author.
Ernest Hemingway was one of America's foremost novelists. He began his career as a newspaper reporter and Red Cross volunteer in ...
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Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)
At the height of his popularity, Ernest Hemingway was hailed as the greatest writer of American literature, a hero of several wars, a world-class sportsman in the fields ...
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Excerpt from The Sun Also RisesPublished in 1926
One of the most influential authors of the twentieth century, Hemingway was a leading figure among the famous U.S. expatriates (peopl...
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Biography EssayErnest Hemingway is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of American writers. He is seen variously as a sensitive and dedicated artist and as a hedonistic adventurer, as a ...
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Ernest Miller Hemingway (1898-1961), American Nobel Prize-winning author, was one of the most celebrated and influential literary stylists of the 20th century.Ernest Hemingway was a legend in his own ...
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Few writers have made their mark on American letters and American culture like Ernest Hemingway. Bursting on the American literary scene in 1925 with the publication of the short story collection In O...
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Ernest Hemingway was twenty-two years old when he arrived in Paris in late December 1921. He had taken part in World War I as a volunteer ambulance driver, and after his experiences in Europe during t...
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Ernest Hemingway is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of American writers. He is seen variously as a sensitive and dedicated artist and as a hedonistic adventurer, as a literary poseur...
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"Any man's life, told truly," Ernest Hemingway wrote in Death in the Afternoon (1932), "is a novel," and he strove to lead a life "better than any picaresque novel you ever read." The mention of hi...
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In the following essay, Summerhayes examines Hemingway's use of language in “Big Two-Hearted River.”
We've reached a stage of modernity where it is very difficult to accept...
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In the following essay, Tilton examines the behavior of Mrs. Garner in the story “Ten Indians.”
Ernest Hemingway's short story “Ten Indians” involves a cast of predo...
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In the following essay, Nolan provides a close reading of a much neglected story “The Sea Change,” in order to demonstrate Hemingway's artistry.
In a wide-ranging but rather petul...
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In the following essay, Lamb contends that Hemingway uses a semiotic approach to critique anti-Semitism in “God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen.”
Hemingway's “God Rest You Merry,...
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In the following essay, Lamb analyzes the dialogue in “Indian Camp,” “A Canary for One," and “Hills Like White Elephants.”
[W]hile one can do nothing about ch...
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In the following essay, Strong elucidates the way in which Hemingway “negotiates the matter of race” in “Indian Camp” and “The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife.&#...
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In the following essay, Ferrero explores the usefulness of gender criticism in Hemingway's short fiction.
Hemingway is the perfect straw man for feminist critics. And in many ways he was asking...
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In the following essay, Stewart attempts to refute revisionist arguments about the influence of World War I on Hemingway's fiction.
“Napoleon taught Stendahl how to write.”
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In the following essay, Lindsay suggests that Hemingway fuses the traditions of the pastoral and tragedy in his writing.
Less than three weeks before his death by suicide in the summer of 1961, Ernest...
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In the following essay, Helstern investigates the ways in which white masculinity gets constructed in the Nick Adams stories.
Indians, to use the common but problematic term, captured Ernest Hemingway...
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Critical Essay by Leon Edel
Hemingway has not created a Style: he has rather created the artful illusion of a Style, for he is a clever artist and there is a great deal of cleverness in all that he ha...
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Critical Essay by Tony Tanner
One could easily list the particular moments that Hemingway chooses to focus on in his short stories and nearly always they will be found to be moments of crisis, tension...
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Critical Essay by John Berryman
This short, almost desperate, and beautiful story ["A Clean, Well-Lighted Place"] is an unusually fine example of a very special kind of story which is no...
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Critical Essay by Malcolm Cowley
When Hemingway's stories first appeared, they seemed to be a transcription of the real world, new because they were accurate and because the world in those days...
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Critical Essay by Sean O'faolain
It is something of a joke, in view of the common belief that Hemingway is a tough, laconic writer, that the reason for the difficulty [in interpreting "A...
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Critical Essay by Robert P. Weeks
The best of [Hemingway's] critics recognized that though he dealt with a limited range of characters, placed them in quite similar circumstances, measured them...
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Critical Essay by Linda Welshimer Wagner
In 1972, Ezra Pound made one of his rare comments, that "Hem did not disappoint." Craftsman that Pound had consistently been, his admiration for ...
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Critical Essay by Nicholas Joost and Alan Brown
Ernest Hemingway's early years as a writer constituted an apprenticeship, during which he emulated a number of his elder contemporaries. Gertrude...
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Critical Essay by Seymour Krim
[Hemingway's collected poems, 88 Poems,] show the thin, hard stream of his contempt even more clearly than his prose. Among the people and things that he subjecte...
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Critical Essay by T. G. Vaidyanathan
A proper consideration of the Nick Adams stories has been seriously bedevilled by the current critical orthodoxy surrounding the notion of 'initiation...
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Critical Essay by Linda W. Wagner
When F. Scott Fitzgerald commented to Hemingway that Catherine Barkley in A Farewell to Arms is less successful than some of the women from his early short stories, h...
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Critical Essay by Kenneth S. Lynn
In the summer of 1924, Ernest Hemingway wrote to Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas to report on the progress he was making with a long short story in which he was &#...
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Critical Essay by Carlos Baker
[Hemingway's] first forty-five stories may be conveniently taken as a kind of unit, since they were all written within ten years, and since they represent what He...
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Critical Essay by Chaman Nahal
It is now accepted by almost every critic of Hemingway that the hero in his work deserves special attention. Philip Young sees the Hemingway protagonist as a sick man, w...
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In the following essay from an anthology celebrating Hemingway's centennial, Knott reviews responses to the author's controversial novel To Have and Have Not.
Manning: “Is there a...
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In the following essay, Moddelmog examines In Our Time, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, and The Garden of Eden through the lens of queer theory to argue that although Hemingway did not de...
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In the following essay, Comley discusses how Hemingway's works, particularly their depiction of gender, contributed to her development as a teacher and scholar.
The road to my present identity,...
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In the following excerpt, Berman considers Hemingway's interest in and relationship to religion and philosophy, with particular attention to his novel A Farewell to Arms.
Throughout Hemingway&#...
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In the essay below, Gajdusek explores how some of the characters in Hemingway's fiction represent a “self-projection” of the author's own history and background, asserting ...
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In the essay below, Freedman speculates to what extent the media's fascination with and exploitation of the cult of personality in the case of Hemingway affects considerations of his writing an...
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In the following article, Paul interviews several well-known and highly respected writers concerning Hemingway's influence on their own work and what they find most compelling about Hemingway.
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In the following essay, originally given as the keynote address for the Ninth International Hemingway Conference in 2000, Walcott, a Nobel Prize-winning poet, recounts how, as a young writer growing u...
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In the following essay, Stoneback meditates upon Hemingway's use of geography and myth in his short fiction.
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The center line of highways was the boundary line of home.
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Ernest Hemingway is one of the most recognized and esteemed authors that has ever lived. His life was filled with all kinds of new and diverse experiences, such as his various jobs, time spent at war...
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The Old Man and the Sea presents Santiago, the old man, as he struggles against nature, the sea, and ultimately himself. In this, Ernest Hemingway illustrates the necessity of not only experiencing, ...
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"At 8 o'clock on the morning of July 21st. 1899 Ernest Miller Hemingway came to town wrapped in a light blue comforter. It was a very hot morning. The sun shone brightly and the Robins sang their swee...
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Ernest Hemingway was one of the best known writers of this century. Hemingway overcame a tragic accident which resulted in leaving him partially paralyzed. There is a time when all writers go through ...
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Analysis of Hemingway's Narrative Technique as a Short- Story Writer
For many years, the narrative technique of Hemingway has been under debate. Writers before him had already achieved works that be...
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Hemingway changed the world of literature in the way that Einstein changed the world of physics. He took books into a place where you could use short simple sentence, and still manage to create a com...
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Ernest Hemingway:
The Thrill Seeker
Ernest Hemingway was not just any ordinary American novelist. He had a significant impact on the development of twentieth century writing, and is considered ...
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Existentialism is a philosophy which regards human existence as unexplained and void of meaning. In existentialism there is no god, all life happened by chance and it has no meaning. Many philosophe...
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Hemingway, Ernest
Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961)
Hemingway, Ernest
Ernest Miller Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest (Miller) Hemingway
