Current Bibliography

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Current Bibliography Kelli A. Larson [The current bibliography aspires to include all serious contributions to Hemingway scholarship. Given the substantial quantity of significant critical work appearing on Hemingway’s life and writings annually, inconsequential items from the popular press have been omitted to facilitate the distinction of important developments and trends in the field. Annotations for articles appearing in The Hemingway Review have been omitted due to the immediate availability of abstracts introducing each issue. Kelli Larson welcomes your assistance in keeping this feature current. Please send reprints, clippings, and photocopies of articles, as well as notices of new books, directly to Larson at the University of St. Thomas, 333 JRC, 2115 Summit Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105-1096. E-Mail: KaLarson1@stthomas.edu.] Kelli A. Larson University of St. Thomas BOOKS Di Robilant, Andrea. Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. [Detailed biography of EH’s final decade, chronicling his love of Venice and infatuation with the young Venetian countess Adriana Ivancich. Di Robilant begins with EH’s 1946 marriage to fourth wife Mary Welsh and then moves into an account of the author’s intimate, though apparently platonic, relationship with Ivancich following their initial 1948 meeting at a duck shoot in Venice. Covers Ivancich’s role as the model for Renata of ARIT and inspiration behind OMS. Di Robilant’s portrait depicts the author’s dedication to writing as well as his struggles with alcoholism and depression. Concludes with Ivancich’s struggles with negative publicity stemming from their relationship, depression, and eventual suicide. Frequent references to EH’s writings throughout, including FTA, ARIT, OMS, and IIS. Draws on existing biographies, journals, memoirs, and unpublished correspondence. Features a dozen black-and-white photographs, endnotes, critical bibliography, and index.] Google Scholar Lo, Chi Kit. Historicity as Acceptable Casualty of War in Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls. S.I.: Grin Publishing, 2017. [Not seen. ISBN: 3668437637.] Google Scholar Maier, Kevin, ed. Teaching Hemingway and the Natural World. Kent, OH: Kent State UP, 2018. [Collection of sixteen pedagogically-based essays focused on EH’s relationship to animals and the environment in his fiction. Essays provide both theoretical grounding and practical approaches on topics ranging from environmental rhetoric to tourism. Appendix features writing prompts, exam questions, and essay assignments. See individual contributions arranged alphabetically by author under ESSAYS.] Google Scholar Morris, Larry E. Ernest Hemingway & Gary Cooper in Idaho: An Enduring Friendship. Charleston, SC: History P, 2017. [Biography beginning with their initial 1940 meeting in Sun Valley and ending with their 1961 deaths. Opens by recounting EH’s time fishing and working on FWBT in Idaho the year prior to their acquaintance and then moves into an account of their time together hunting, fishing, and hiking. Charts the author’s literary productivity (e.g. ARIT and OMS) alongside Cooper’s film output, validating their status as American cultural icons. Morris’s closing chapter details the final years of those closest to EH and Cooper, including wives, lovers, and Idaho friends such as Lloyd and Tillie Arnold. Draws on biographies, correspondence, and local newspaper articles. Features over fifty black-and-white photographs, map, and index.] Google Scholar Spanier, Sandra and Miriam B. Mandel, eds. The Letters of Ernest Hemingway Volume 4, 1929–1931. New York: Cambridge UP, 2017. [The fourth volume of an estimated seventeen volume series of all known surviving letters from April 1929 through 1931. On a personal level, the letters cover EH’s return to Paris with second wife Pauline, passion for the bullfights in Spain, hunting and fishing with friends in Wyoming, recovery from a debilitating car accident, and move to Key West. Professionally, they document the immediate critical and popular success of FTA, his negotiations for film rights and foreign publication of the novel, and work on DIA. Features useful introductory materials, including essays on EH’s letter writing habits, biography of the author’s personal and professional life during the covered years, detailed chronology, and maps. Meticulous endnotes annotate each of the 430 letters, identifying references to people, places, and events. Extensive index.] Google Scholar Wheeler, Robert. Hemingway’s Havana: A Reflection of the Writer’s Life...