- Title
- The Will to Control: Ernest Hemingway and the Action of Writing
- Author/Creator
- Ross K. Tangedal
- Publication Details
- The Preface: American Authorship in the Twentieth Century, pp.115-139
- Annotation
- Examines Hemingway's use of prefaces to other writers' books and to his own as vehicles for dismissing critics, propping up the "action" of writing as opposed to the passivity of criticism, commenting on the literary scene, and "manipulating his public writing persona." Extensively discusses Hemingway's brief foreword to Green Hills of Africa and a revised version for the British edition a year later as attempts to control how readers receive his work and to deflect critical darts. Also discusses pertinent material in Hemingway's dispatches for Esquire, correspondence with Max Perkins, and others, contributions to books by Kiki de Montparnasse and Jerome Bahr, and Hemingway's preface to The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories.
- Publisher
- Springer Nature; Cham, Switzerland
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015212022803691
Book chapter
The Will to Control: Ernest Hemingway and the Action of Writing
The Preface: American Authorship in the Twentieth Century, pp.115-139
Springer Nature
2021
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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