Edited by Wagner-Martin (English and comparative literature, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), this is the fourth collection of Ernest Hemingway criticism in a series that began with
Hemingway: Five Decades of Criticism (1987). Consisting of mostly new material, the volume's 26 essays include discussions of Hemingway's early illness narratives and the lyric dimensions of
"Now I Lay Me;" silence, hospitals, and anesthesia in A Farewell to Arms; masculinity, disability, and guilt in The Sun Also Rises; war, gender, and Hemingway; word play in A Farewell to Arms;
cubism, conservation, and the suspension of identification in In Our Time; recurrence in Hemingway and C矇zanne; Men without Women as composite novel; money, marriage, and self-censorship in For
Whom the Bell Tolls; Hemingway's sacred landscapes; Hemingway, primitivism, and identity; and Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki and Hemingway's return to primitivism. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc.,
Portland, OR (booknews.com)
