- Title
- The Short Story Just Got Shorter: Hemingway, Narrative, and the Six-Word Urban Legend
- Author/Creator
- Frederick A. Wright
- Publication Details
- Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.47(2), pp.327-340
- Annotation
- Investigates Hemingway s supposed authorship of the Baby Shoes text, identifying playwright John de Groot and his one-character play on Hemingway s life entitled Papa (1988) as the source. Wright theorizes on the six-word text s impact on popular culture and discusses the problems associated with defining such a short piece as a story.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Record Identifier
- 991015132369003691
Journal article
The Short Story Just Got Shorter: Hemingway, Narrative, and the Six-Word Urban Legend
Journal of Popular Culture, Vol.47(2), pp.327-340
2014
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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