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The Hemingway Short Story : A Study in Craft for Writers and Readers /

This volume analyzes the short story writing of American writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). The author attempts to illuminate Hemingway's's methods of construction and to show how craft criticism complements and enhances cultural literary studies. This study presents close readings of re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lamb, Robert Paul, 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2015, [2013]
Edition:Louisiana paperback edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • [1.] Full Encounters of the close kind. Really reading a Hemingway story: the example of "Indian camp"
  • [2.] How craft readings contribute to understanding stories. Dueling wounds in "Soldier's home": the relation of textual form, narrative argument, and cultural critique
  • The "pointless" story: what is "A canary for one?"
  • [3.] Metacritical and metafictional Hemingway. Hemingway on (Mis)reading stories: "God rest you merry, gentlemen" as metacriticism
  • Hemingway on (mis)writing stories: "Big two-hearted river" as metafiction.