A Companion to Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon
A Companion to Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon (Studies in American Literature and Culture) Miriam B. Mandel (Editor)
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 1571132023
DDC: 791.82
Edition: Hardcover; 2004-10-11
Summary:
Published in 1932, Death in the Afternoon reveals its author at the
height of his intellectual and stylistic powers. By that time,
Hemingway had already won critical and popular acclaim for his short
stories and novels of the late twenties. A mature and self-confident
artist, he now risked his career by switching from fiction to
nonfiction, from American characters to Spanish bullfighters, from
exotic and romantic settings to the tough world of the Spanish
bullring, a world that might seem frightening and even repellant to
those who do not understand it. Hemingway's nonfiction has been
denied the attention that his novels and short stories have enjoyed,
a state of affairs this Companion seeks to remedy, breaking new
ground by applying theoretical and critical approaches to a work of
nonfiction. It does so in original essays that offer a thorough,
balanced examination of a complex, boundary-breaking, and hitherto
neglected text. The volume is broken into sections dealing with: the
composition, reception, and sources of I>Death in the Afternoon;
cultural translation, cultural criticism, semiotics, and paratextual
matters; and the issues of art, authorship, audience, and the
literary legacy of Death in the Afternoon. The contributors to the
volume, four men and seven women, lay to rest the stereotype of
Hemingway as a macho writer whom women do not read; and their
nationalities (British, Spanish, American, and Israeli) indicate that
Death in the Afternoon, even as it focuses on a particular national
art, discusses matters of universal concern.Contributors: Miriam B.
Mandel, Robert W. Trogdon, Lisa Tyler, Linda Wagner-Martin, Peter
Messent, Beatriz Penas Ibáñez, Anthony Brand, Nancy Bredendick,
Hilary Justice, Amy Vondrak, and Keneth Kinnamon.Miriam B. Mandel
teaches in the English Department of Tel Aviv University.
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