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.] BOOKS Andersen, Richard F. Ernest Hemingway and World War I. New York, NY: Cavendish Square, 2015. [Overview geared to young adults. Andersen covers the influence of World War I and the Paris expatriate scene on EH’s life and works before moving into a familiar biography of the author. Analyzes SAR and FTA, including plot synopses and discussions of major characters, themes, and symbols. Numerous black-and-white photos.] Chamberlin, Brewster S. The Hemingway Log: A Chronology of His Life and Times. Lawrence, KS: UP of Kansas, 2015 [Comprehensive and detailed chronology of EH’s life, work, and cultural contexts beginning with the 1835 birth of Mark Twain and ending with the 2013 publication of the second volume of EH’s letters. Drawn from biographies, memoirs, letters, notebooks, and collections, Chamberlin’s entries form a near day by day calendar of important and influential people, places, and events making up EH’s cultural milieu. Attempting to correct some of the myths and confusions written about EH over the years, Chamberlin’s appendices cover such topics as EH’s 1936 dustup with Wallace Stevens, introduction to Martha Gellhorn at Sloppy Joe’s in Key West, and his espionage activities with the FBI. Extensive footnotes and index.] Donaldson, Scott. The Impossible Craft: Literary Biography. University Park, [End Page 124] PA: Pennsylvania State UP, 2015. [Detailed account of the challenges Donaldson faced while writing numerous literary biographies on EH, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edwin A. Robinson, and others. Donaldson addresses such practical issues as the difficulties of determining relevant details, dealing with surviving family, and over identifying with one’s subject. Always attuned to the craft behind the genre, Donaldson discusses the problems of sorting out the real EH behind his public persona and EH’s often contentious relationships with his biographers. Includes a survey of the most current EH biographies on the market. Helpful index.] Hemingway, Mariel. Out Came the Sun: Overcoming the Legacy of Mental Illness, Addiction, and Suicide in My Family. New York, NY: Regan Arts, 2015. [Memoir by EH’s granddaughter about growing up in a family struggling with mental illness and addiction. Frequent but brief references to EH throughout.] McFarland, Ron. Appropriating Hemingway: Using Him as a Fictional Character. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. [Popular fiction study centered on the numerous refashionings of EH as a fictional character in novels, stories, movies, and poems. For each work, McFarland describes the extent of the author’s appropriation of EH’s life, writing style, and characters and corrects biographical and historical fallacies to set the record straight. While fictional biography clearly keeps the EH legend alive, McFarland also hopes that such fictional takes will encourage readers to return to EH’s writing.] Rhodes, Richard. Hell and Good Company: The Spanish Civil War and the World It Made. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2015. [Biographical approach based on eye witness accounts of the war by writers, reporters, artists, and nurses. Rhodes relates EH’s experiences at the Hotel Florida while reporting for NANA, including the April 1937 shelling of the hotel during an assault on Madrid. Notes that EH’s 1938 short story “Night Before Battle” was based on an elevator encounter with a trio of drunks at the Florida. Also recounts EH’s efforts, along with others, to garner American support at home for the Spanish Republic. References to EH throughout.] Rodenberg, Hans-Peter. The Making of Ernest Hemingway: Celebrity, Photojournalism and the Emergence of the Modern Lifestyle...