New Essays on Hemingway's Short Fiction

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Edited by Paul Smith,

by Nancy R. Comley and Robert Scholes

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published April 1998, 154 pages, paper

ISBN 0521556511

Ernest Hemingway is one of the most gifted, oft-taught, and frequently criticized authors of the short story in the English language. The introduction and four original scholarly essays in this volume constitute an overview of Hemingway's career as a short story writer and of practical problems involved in reading this work. The early short story "Up in Michigan" is explained in relation to the groundbreaking short story cycle In Our Time. Problems of narration are analyzed in "Now I Lay Me," an integral part of Hemingway's second collection of short stories, Men without Women. An essay on "Fathers and Sons" takes a detailed look at the ecological and Native American background of the collection Winner Take Nothing. "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.