Hemingway's Geographies: Intimacy, Materiality, and Memory

ISBN-13: 9781349958764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 194 str.

Laura Gruber Godfrey

Recenzje

"A cultural geography of Hemingway's best-known work, Laura Godfrey's Hemingway's Geographies explores how the human and natural histories of places in his fiction permeate the memories and experiences of his characters and back again. With theoretical savvy, surprising insights drawn from several disciplines, and warm personal touches, Godfrey charts Hemingway's creation of place in the mind of the reader. If Hemingway is the principal poet of place in American literature, Godfrey is his most adept cartographer. A welcome and essential addition to the Hemingway bookshelf." - Susan F. Beegel, Editor Emerita, The Hemingway Review

"Laura Godfrey's book, while illuminating Hemingway's notion of place, becomes an indispensable broader consideration of Hemingway's entire career. This book is a nimble, affectionate, gracefully written investigation into Hemingway's sense of place, the geography that guided his art. Godfrey blends the erudition of a scholar with the infectious enthusiasm of a fan. It's a book to learn from; but better than that, it's a book to enjoy." - Mark Cirino, Associate Professor of English, University of Evansville, USA

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction:  Ernest Hemingway’s Intimate Geographies

Chapter One:  Hemingway, the Preservation Impulse, and Cultural Geography

Chapter Two: The Illusion of Remembered Places  

Chapter Three:  The Radiance of Objects in Place   

Chapter Four: Negotiating the Terrain of Conflict       

Afterword   

Works Cited   

O autorze

Laura Gruber Godfrey is Assistant Chair of the Department of English and Humanities at North Idaho College, USA. She has published widely on American literature and on Hemingway in journals such as Western American Literature, Arizona Quarterly, Critique, and The Hemingway Review as well as in the edited collections Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism, Ernest Hemingway and the Geography of Memory, and Teaching Hemingway and the Natural World. 

Blurb

This book combines close literary analysis with recent research on culture and the spaces humans inhabit. By examining a wide range of Hemingway’s writing, including excerpts from his letters; short stories such as “Big Two-Hearted River” and “On the Quai at Smyrna”; the posthumously-published “The Last Good Country” and A Moveable Feast; and the novels The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell To Arms, Laura Gruber Godfrey shows how characters’ immersions in place are essential to Hemingway’s fiction. Revising conventional views of Hemingway’s various landscapes as literary symbols or external settings for action, Godfrey shows that, for Hemingway, humans and geography are often coextensive and interdependent.