Hemingway’s Art of Non-Fiction (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ronald Weber
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Journalism or journalists, Traveling or travelers, Twentieth century, Nature, Literature, Paris, Hunting or hunters, Bullfighting or bullfighters
There is little dispute any more over the status of Ernest Hemingway as a novelist. Except for a small group of theorists, largely those whose critical bent is toward radical feminism, the consensus of contemporary scholars is that Hemingway ranks with William Faulkner and E Scott Fitzgerald as one of the major voices in American fiction of the first half of the twentieth century. His novels continue to be reprinted and sold to large audiences of “general readers.” The Sun Also Rises (1926), A Farewell to Arms (1929), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), and The...
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