Presents a collection of eleven critical essays on the writings of Ernest Hemingway from a variety of noted poets, novelists, essayists, and playwrights of the Western world and contains an introductory essay by Harold Bloom and chronology.
Content Note
Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Hemingway: gauge of morale / Edmund Wilson -- Ernest Hemingway / Robert Penn Warren -- The way it was / Carlos Baker -- Hemingway's extraordinary actuality / John Hollander -- Of tyros and tutors / Earl Rovit and Gerry Brenner -- Of bulls and men / Edward F. Stanton -- A retrospective epilogue: on the importance of being androgynous / Mark Spilka -- Reflection vs. daydream: two types of the implied reader in Hemingway's fiction / Hubert Zapf -- On psychic retrenchment in Hemingway / Earl Rovit -- The disabled able body and white heteromasculinity / Debra A. Moddelmog -- Santiago and the eternal feminine; gendering La mar and The old man and the sea / Susan F. Beegel.