- Title
- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
- Author/Creator
- Harold Bloom
- Publication Details
- The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon, pp.266-274
- Annotation
- Characterizes Hemingway as an elegiac poet influenced by Walt Whitman s style and Ralph Waldo Emerson s vision of self-reliance. Applauds Hemingway s contributions to the short story genre, identifying Hills Like White Elephants, God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen, and The Snows of Kilimanjaro as true literary masterpieces. Disparages For Whom the Bell Tolls, To Have and Have Not and other novels, contending that Hemingway s stylistic genius, stretched beyond its limits in the longer narrative structure, devolves into incoherent understatement. Previously published in How to Read and Why. New York: Scribner s, 2000. 46-51.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015130916903691
Book chapter
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon, pp.266-274
2019
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography