New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Benson, Jackson J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Introduction The Art of the Short Story I Critical Approaches

Narrative Voice The Unifying Consciousness of a Divided Conscience: Nick Adams as Author of In Our Time Semiotic Analysis Decoding Papa: “A Very Short Story” As Work and Text Lacanian Reading Hemingway’s “After the Storm”: A Lacanian Reading Structuralist Interpretation Structuralism and Interpretation: Ernest Hemingway’s “Cat in the Rain” Textual Analysis “That Always Absent Something Else”: “A Natural History of the Dead” and Its Discarded Coda Reception Theory Reflection vs. Daydream: Two Types of the Implied Reader in Hemingway’s Fiction Feminist Perspective “Actually, I Felt Sorry For the Lion” Historical-Biographical Analysis “Old Man at the Bridge”: The Making of a Short Story

Writing a Story Instead of a Dispatch Transforming Facts into Fiction The Boundary between Fiction and Fact

II Story Technique and Themes

Hemingway’s Apprentice Fiction: 1919–1921 The Troubled Fisherman From “Sepi Jingan” to “The Mother of a Queen”: Hemingway’s Three Epistemologic Formulas for Short Fiction Nada and the Clean, Well-Lighted Place: The Unity of Hemingway’s Short Fiction “Only Let the Story End As Soon As Possible”: Time-and-History in Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time

Appendix

“Long Time Ago Good, Now No Good”: Hemingway’s Indian Stories

III Story Interpretations

Hemingway’s “Banal Story” “This Is My Pal Bugs”: Ernest Hemingway’s “The Battler” Preparing for the End: Hemingway’s Revisions of “A Canary for One” El Pueblo Español: “The Capital of the World” The Poor Kitty and the Padrone and the Tortoise-shell Cat in “Cat in the Rain” Hemingway’s “The Denunciation”: The Aloof American To Embrace or Kill: Fathers and Sons Wise-Guy Narrator and Trickster Out-Tricked in Hemingway’s “Fifty Grand” A Reading of Hemingway’s “The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio” Gender-Linked Miscommunication in “Hills Like White Elephants” Hemingway’s Primitivism and “Indian Camp” Hemingway’s “The Killers”: The Map and the Territory “The Last Good Country”: Again the End of Something Nick Adams and the Search for Light “Nobody Ever Dies!”: Hemingway’s Fifth Story of the Spanish Civil War Hemingway’s “Out of Season”: The End of the Line Perversion and the Writer in “The Sea Change” Coming of Age in Hortons Bay: Hemingway’s “Up in Michigan” Crazy in Sheridan: Hemingway’s “Wine of Wyoming” Reconsidered

IV An Overview of the Criticism

A Partial Review: Critical Essays on the Short Stories, 1976–1989

Critical Books Critical Anthologies Critical Articles

V A Comprehensive Checklist of Hemingway Short Fiction Criticism, Explication, and Commentary, 1975–1989

Preface to the Comprehensive Checklist

Section I: Books on Hemingway’s Work Containing Discussion of the Short Stories Section II: Articles, Books Devoted to Hemingway’s Work, Books Not Exclusively Devoted to Hemingway, and Dissertations Containing Discussion of Several Hemingway Short Stories III 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

Notes and References

Debra A. Moddelmog, “The Unifying Consciousness of a Divided Conscience: Nick Adams as Author of In Our Time” Ben Stolzfus, “Hemingway’s ‘After the Storm’: A Lacanian Reading” Oddvar Holmesland, “Structuralism and Interpretation: Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Cat in the Rain’” Susan F. Beegel, “‘That Always Absent Something Else‘: ‘A Natural History of the Dead’ and Its Discarded Coda” Hubert Zapf, “Reflection vs. Daydream: Two Types of the Implied Reader in Hemingway’s Fiction” Nina Baym, “‘Actually, I Felt Sorry for the Lion’” William Braasch Watson, “‘Old Man at the Bridge’: The Making of a Short Story” Paul Smith, “Hemingway’s Apprentice Fiction: 1919–1921” Kenneth Lynn, “The Troubled Fisherman” Gerry Brenner, “From ‘Sepi Jingan’ to ‘The Mother of a Queen’: Hemingway’s Three, Epistemologic Formulas for Short Fiction“ Steven K. Hoffman, “Nada and the Clean, Well-Lighted Place: The Unity of Hemingway’s Short Fiction” E. R. Hagemann, “‘Only Let the Story End As Soon As Possible’: Time-and-History in Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time” Robert W. Lewis, “‘Long Time Ago Good, Now No Good’: Hemingway’s Indian Stories” Wayne Kvam, “Hemingway’s ‘Banal Story’” George Monteiro, “‘This Is My Pal Bugs’: Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The Battler’“ Scott Donaldson, “Preparing for the End: Hemingway’s Revisions of ‘A Canary for One’” Bernard Oldsey, “El Pueblo Español: ‘The Capital of the World’” Warren Bennett, “The Poor Kitty and the Padrone and the Tortoise-shell Cat in ‘Cat in the Rain’“ Kenneth G. Johnston, “Hemingway’s ‘The Denunciation’: The Aloof American” Robert P. Weeks, “Wise-Guy Narrator and Trickster Out-Tricked in Hemingway’s ‘Fifty Grand’” Amberys R. Whittle, “A Reading of Hemingway’s ‘The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio’” Pamela Smiley, ”Gender-Linked Miscommunication in ‘Hills Like White Elephants’” Jeffrey Meyers, “Hemingway’s Primitivism and ‘Indian Camp’” Robert E. Fleming, “Hemingway’s ‘The Killers’: The Map and the Territory” David R. Johnson, “‘The Last Good Country’: Again the End of Something” Howard L. Hannum, “Nick Adams and the Search for Light” Larry Edgerton, “‘Nobody Ever Dies!’: Hemingway’s Fifth Story of the Spanish Civil War” William Adair, ”Hemingway’s ‘Out of Season’: The End of the Line” Robert E. Fleming, ”Perversion and the Writer in ‘The Sea Change’” Alice Hall Petry, “Coming of Age in Hortons Bay: Hemingway’s ‘Up in Michigan’” Lawrence H. Martin, Jr., “Crazy in Sheridan: Hemingway’s ‘Wine of Wyoming’ Reconsidered” Paul Smith, “A Partial Review: Critical Essays on the Short Stories, 1976–1989”

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