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Highlights
- Exploring the importance of Ernest Hemingway's time in Italy to his writing and legacyFrom 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.
- Author(s): Mark Cirino & Mark P Ott
- 262 Pages
- Literary Criticism, American
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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
Exploring the importance of Ernest Hemingway's time in Italy to his writing and legacy
The collection addresses Hemingway's many Italys--the terrain and people he encountered during his life and the country he transposed into his fiction.
Contributors analyze Hemingway's Italian works, including A Farewell to Arms, Across the River and into the Trees, lesser-known short stories, fables, and even a previously unpublished Hemingway sketch, "Torcello Piece." The essays provide fresh insights on Hemingway's Italian life, career, and imagination.
Contributors: Giacomo Ivancich Ruggero Caumo Scott Donaldson Sergio Perosa Rosella Mamoli Zorzi Davide Lorigliola Alberto Lena Miriam B. Mandel Michael Kim Roos John D. Schwetman Adam Long Marina Gradoli Piero Ambrogio Pozzi Kirk Curnutt Cam Cobb Kei Katsui
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
