Hemingway and Italy - by Mark Cirino & Mark P Ott (Paperback)

About the Book

From his World War I service in Italy through his transformational return visits during the decades that followed, Ernest Hemingway's Italian experiences were fundamental to his artistic development. Hemingway and Italy offers essays from top scholars, exciting new voices, and people who knew Hemingway during his Italian days, examining how his adopted homeland shaped his writing and his legacy.

Book Synopsis

From his World War I service in Italy through his transformational return visits during the decades that followed, Ernest Hemingway's Italian experiences were fundamental to his artistic development. Hemingway and Italy offers essays from top scholars, exciting new voices, and people who knew Hemingway during his Italian days, examining how his adopted homeland shaped his writing and his legacy.

Review Quotes

"An indispensable source for anyone seeking wider knowledge of
twenty-first-century Hemingway research, particularly with respect to
his works set in Italy."--Modern Language Review



"An accessible introduction to Hemingway and Italy. . . . The collection is a pleasure."--Hemingway Review



"Mark
Cirino and Mark P. Ott have put together a collection of essays that
showcases a considerable variety of critical approaches, as well as an
array of international perspectives and sensibilities, which truly
befits Hemingway's cosmopolitanism. Hemingway and Italy is a welcome
addition both to Hemingway studies and to scholarship devoted to the
venerable tradition of the international theme, particularly as regards
the complex, fruitful relationship between American writers and Italy."--Modernism/modernity



"This
volume beckons us with a truly unique and heretofore unearthed
consideration of Hemingway's Italy by engaging with a wide variety of
Hemingway experts, connoisseurs, friends, and acquaintances alike, who
deliver a provocative read about Hemingway's connection with Italy."--Italian Americana