New Essays on Hemingway's Short Fiction

Ernest Hemingway is one of the most gifted, oft-taught, and frequently criticized authors of the short story in the English language. An introduction and four original scholarly essays here constitute a survey of Hemingway's career as a short story writer and offer an overview of practical problems involved in reading his work. Includes bibliography. 2 photos.

The introduction and four scholarly essays in this volume constitute an overview of Hemingway's career as a short story writer and offer an overview of practical problems involved in reading this work. The early short story Up in Michigan is explained in relation to the short story cycle In Our Time. Problems of narration are analysed in Now I Lay Me, an integral part of the famous Nick Adams stories. A detailed look at ecological and Native American backgrounds is presented in Fathers and Sons, in the collection Winner Take Nothing; and Snows of Kilimanjaro is examined from a postcolonial perspective. Also included is a selected bibliography designed to direct readers to the most valuable resources for the study of Hemingway's short fiction.

Series editor's preface; 1. Introduction: Hemingway and the practical reader Paul Smith; 2. Reading 'Up in Michigan' Nancy R. Comley and Robert Scholes; 3. 'Now I Lay Me': Nick's strange monologue, Hemingway's powerful lyric, and the reader's disconcerting experience James Phelan; 4. Second growth: the ecology of loss in 'Fathers and Sons' Susan F. Beegel; 5. Re-placing Africa in 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro': the intersecting economies of capitalist-imperialism and Hemingway biography Debra A. Moddelmog; Notes on contributors; Selected bibliography.

The introduction and four scholarly essays in this volume constitute an overview of Hemingway's career as a short story writer and offer an overview of practical problems involved in reading this work.