Screen LibraryErnest Hemingway's A farewell to arms : a documentary volume /
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| Published: |
Thomson Gale,
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| Publisher Address: | Detroit : |
| Publication Dates: | [2005] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Dictionary of literary biography ;
v. 308 |
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| Item Description: | "A Bruccoli Clark Layman book." |
| Carrier Form: | xxvi, 443 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-353) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0787681261 9780787681265 |
| Index Number: | PS3515 |
| CLC: | K837.125.6-61 |
| Call Number: | K837.125.6-61/D554/v.308 |
| Contents: |
Cultural context for A farewell to arms -- Hemingway's war -- The historical background -- Hemingway's journalism -- A short story that became a novel -- Considering serialization -- Choosing a title -- The final typed draft -- Contravening conventions -- The book proof -- Fitzgerald's criticism -- A new ending -- Banned in Boston -- The expurgation of A farewell to arms -- American reviews -- A critic's question [: what is dirt?] -- English reviews -- A European view -- Stallings's play and the first movie -- The 1958 movie -- In spite of Robert Herrick / T.S. Eliot on Hemingway / The "dumb ox" / The reception of A farewell to arms in Germany / Farewell the separate peace / A motto for A farewell to arms / The esthetics of simplicity / Preface to the first French edition / The story behind the love story / Looking back at a brilliant novel / Ford Madox Ford on the opening / A farewell to arms in The art of modern fiction / The mountain and the plain / Hemingway's ambiguity : symbolism and irony / The parallels of war and love / The religion of death in A farewell to arms / Tough talk : the rhetoric of Frederic Henry / Hemingway a footnote to Stein? / A farewell to arms : Hemingway's "resentful cryptogram" / Going back / History in the service of art / The value of ending / E.R.A. for Hemingway : a feminist defense of A farewell to arms / Frederic Henry's escape and the pose of passivity / Pseudoautobiography and personal metaphor / A Hemingway parody / Distance, voice, and temporal perspective in Frederic Henry's narration / Rinaldi and Ferguson / Manners and morals / Othello as a key to Hemingway / Hemingway's soldiers and their pregnant women : domestic ritual in World War I / Partial articulation : word play in A farewell to arms / Invalid masculinity : silence, hospitals, and anesthesia in A farewell to arms / |