- Title
- Hemingway's Art of Revision: The Making of the Short Fiction
- Author/Creator
- John Beall
- Annotation
- Intensely close and insightful readings of more than a dozen short stories and the multiple manuscript revisions each of them went through during Hemingway's creative process. Delineates in great detail the variations, the evolution, and the changing meanings of the texts as they proceeded to publication and sometimes reverberated thematically with adjacent stories in particular volumes. Highlights Hemingway's conscious effort in revision to increase each story's power on multiple levels. Interpretive conclusions exemplified by the author's analysis of "Cat in the Rain," which emphasizes how Hemingway absorbed modernist lessons from James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and the cubist art works he encountered in the latter's home. Concludes with a consideration of how the recent The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Hemingway Library Edition has furthered the opportunity to study Hemingway's writing process with its inclusion of story drafts, but notes that the volume excludes, to provide an important example, certain key drafts of "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." Beall goes on to detail the contents of the two later drafts of the story that the volume overlooks and what they mean for Hemingway students, scholars, teachers, and readers. One omitted draft, for example, includes "one of the most powerful interior monologues" in a Hemingway story.
- Publisher
- Louisiana State University Press; Baton Rouge
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Resource Type
- Book
- Record Identifier
- 991015213188503691
Book
Hemingway's Art of Revision: The Making of the Short Fiction
Louisiana State University Press
2024
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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