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New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Art of the Short Story -- I. Critical Approaches -- Narrative Voice: The Unifying Consciousness of a Divided Conscience: Nick Adams as Author of In Our Time -- Semiotic Analysis: Decoding Papa: "A Very Short Story" As Work and Text -- Lacanian Reading: Hemingway's "After the Storm": A Lacanian Reading -- Structuralist Interpretation: Structuralism and Interpretation: Ernest Hemingway's "Cat in the Rain" -- Textual Analysis: "That Always Absent Something Else": "A Natural History of the Dead" and Its Discarded Coda -- Reception Theory: Reflection vs. Daydream: Two Types of the Implied Reader in Hemingway's Fiction -- Feminist Perspective: "Actually, I Felt Sorry For the Lion" -- Historical-Biographical Analysis: "Old Man at the Bridge": The Making of a Short Story -- II. Story Technique and Themes -- Hemingway's Apprentice Fiction: 1919-1921 -- The Troubled Fisherman -- From "Sepi Jingan" to "The Mother of a Queen": Hemingway's Three Epistemologic Formulas for Short Fiction -- Nada and the Clean, Well-Lighted Place: The Unity of Hemingway's Short Fiction -- "OnIy Let the Story End As Soon As Possible": Time-and-History in Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time -- "Long Time Ago Good, Now No Good": Hemingway's Indian Stories -- III. Story Interpretations -- Hemingway's "Banal Story" -- "This Is My Pal Bugs": Ernest Hemingway's "The Battler" -- Preparing for the End: Hemingway's Revisions of "A Canary for One" -- El Pueblo Español: "The Capital of the World" -- The Poor Kitty and the Padrone and the Tortoise-shell Cat in "Cat in the Rain" -- Hemingway's "The Denunciation": The Aloof American -- To Embrace or Kill: Fathers and Sons -- Wise-Guy Narrator and Trickster Out-Tricked in Hemingway's "Fifty Grand" -- A Reading of Hemingway's "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" -- Gender-Linked Miscommunication in "Hills Like White Elephants" -- Hemingway's Primitivism and "Indian Camp" -- Hemingway's "The Killers": The Map and the Territory -- "The Last Good Country": Again the End of Something -- Nick Adams and the Search for Light -- "Nobody Ever Dies!": Hemingway's Fifth Story of the Spanish Civil War -- Hemingway's "Out of Season": The End of the Line -- Perversion and the Writer in "The Sea Change" -- Coming of Age in Hortons Bay: Hemingway's "Up in Michigan" -- Crazy in Sheridan: Hemingway's "Wine of Wyoming" Reconsidered -- IV. An Overview of the Criticism -- A Partial Review: Critical Essays on the Short Stories, 1976-1989 -- V. A Comprehensive Checklist of Hemingway Short Fiction Criticism, Explication, and Commentary, 1975-1989 -- Preface to the Comprehensive Checklist -- Section I: Books on Hemingway's Work Containing Discussion of the Short Stories -- Section II: Articles, Books Devoted to Hemingway's Work, Books Not Exclusively Devoted to Hemingway, and Dissertations Containing Discussion of Severol Hemingway Short Stories -- Section III. Criticism, Explication, and Commentary on Individual Stories, Listed by Story-Including Specific Articles, Segments from Books on Hemingway's Work, and Segments from General Books -- Notes and References -- About the Contributors With an Overview by Paul Smith and a Checklist to Hemingway Criticism, 1975–1990New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway is an all-new sequel to Benson’s highly acclaimed 1975 book, which provided the first comprehensive anthology of criticism of Ernest Hemingway’s masterful short stories. Since that time the availability of Hemingway’s papers, coupled with new critical and theoretical approaches, has enlivened and enlarged the field of American literary studies. This companion volume reflects current scholarship and draws together essays that were either published during the past decade or written for this collection.The contributors interpret a variety of individual stories from a number of different critical points of view—from a Lacanian reading of Hemingway’s “After the Storm” to a semiotic analysis of “A Very Short Story” to an historical-biographical analysis of “Old Man at the Bridge.” In identifying the short story as one of Hemingway’s principal thematic and technical tools, this volume reaffirms a focus on the short story as Hemingway’s best work. An overview essay covers Hemingway criticism published since the last volume, and the bibliographical checklist to Hemingway short fiction criticism, which covers 1975 to mid-1989, has doubled in size.Contributors. Debra A. Moddelmog, Ben Stotzfus, Robert Scholes, Hubert Zapf, Susan F. Beegel, Nina Baym, William Braasch Watson, Kenneth Lynn, Gerry Brenner, Steven K. Hoffman, E. R. Hagemann, Robert W. Lewis, Wayne Kvam, George Monteiro, Scott Donaldson, Bernard Oldsey, Warren Bennett, Kenneth G. Johnston, Richard McCann, Robert P. Weeks, Amberys R. Whittle, Pamela Smiley, Jeffrey Meyers, Robert E. Fleming, David R. Johnson, Howard L. Hannum, Larry Edgerton, William Adair, Alice Hall Petry, Lawrence H. Martin Jr., Paul Smith
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