Hemingway and Italy : Twenty-First-Century Perspectives.
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- computer
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- 9780813052830
- 813.52
- PS3515.E37.H465 2017
Cover -- Hemingway and Italy -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- "Torcello Piece" -- Hemingway and Italy: An Introduction -- PART I. REMINISCENCES -- 1. Address to the Hemingway Society Congress: Venice, June 22, 2014 -- 2. Remembering Ernest Hemingway: And the Sad Epilogue of a Hero Described in the Novel Across the River and into the Trees -- PART II. HEMINGWAY'S ITALY IN CONTEXT -- 3. Ernest, Hadley, and Italy -- 4. Views of Venice before Hemingway -- 5. Torcello: From John Ruskin and Henry James to Ernest Hemingway -- 6. Hemingway at Lignano Sabbiadoro and in Friuli-Venezia Giulia -- PART III. A FAREWELL TO ARMS -- 7. The Many Faces of Defeat: Italian Ideological Contexts in Frederic Henry's Caporetto -- 8. Reading and Not Reading The Black Pig in A Farewell to Arms -- 9. "What If You Are Not Built That Way?": H. G. Wells and the Conflict of Science and Faith in A Farewell to Arms -- 10. "I Was in Italy . . . and I Spoke Italian": The Cosmopolitan Battlefield of A Farewell to Arms -- PART IV. ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES -- 11. Artifice and Reality: The Blending of Venice and America in Across the River and into the Trees -- 12. Across the River and into the Trees: A Trigonometric Mirror -- 13. The Italian Translation of Across the River: Will It Ever Reach the Juncture? -- 14. Across the Associate Editorship of the Harvard Lampoon and onto the Wall above the Urinal: The Reach and Legacy of E. B. White's "Across the Street and into the Grill" -- PART V. THE FABLES -- 15. Dear Children (Good and Bad), You Are Cordially Invited to a Roasting of Instructional Literature -- 16. A "Very Complicated" Diet for a Lion: The Functions of Food and Drink in "The Good Lion" -- List of Contributors -- Index.
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