The Influence of the European Culture on Hemingway’s Fiction

Silvia Ammary

The Influence of the European Culture on Hemingway’s Fiction is an essential companion to all those who study Hemingway. The study deals with how Hemingway depicts Europe in his fiction, not necessarily from a biographical point of view, as most critical books have dealt with, but how he assimilates to the culture of Europe, how he portrays the different aspects of that culture in food, music, customs, architecture, and literature. This study views Hemingway’s stories and novels through a new lens by applying new critical developments, emergent approaches, and transnational studies to aid in a fuller understanding of Hemingway.

Europe for Hemingway was a land of discovery, and one cannot study his major novels without analyzing this passion for these lands. The Europe that Hemingway experienced and recorded in his writing serves as an important element in his fiction, becoming “the other,” an alien culture that was sufficiently different from his American roots. Yet this otherness serves first to fulfill his psychological needs to learn and become one of the initiated through suffering—whether it involves himself or the loss of other people around him. « less more »

Lexington Books

Pages: 120 • Trim: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2

978-0-7391-8759-3 • Hardback • June 2015 • $78.00 • (£52.95)

978-0-7391-8760-9 • eBook • June 2015 • $74.00 • (£49.95)

Subjects: Literary Criticism / American / General, Literary Criticism / European / General, Literary Criticism / American / Regional, Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century

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The Influence of the European Culture on Hemingway’s Fiction is an essential companion to all those who study Hemingway. The study deals with how Hemingway depicts Europe in his fiction, not necessarily from a biographical point of view, as most critical books have dealt with, but how he assimilates to the culture of Europe, how he portrays the different aspects of that culture in food, music, customs, architecture, and literature. This study views Hemingway’s stories and novels through a new lens by applying new critical developments, emergent approaches, and transnational studies to aid in a fuller understanding of Hemingway.

Europe for Hemingway was a land of discovery, and one cannot study his major novels without analyzing this passion for these lands. The Europe that Hemingway experienced and recorded in his writing serves as an important element in his fiction, becoming “the other,” an alien culture that was sufficiently different from his American roots. Yet this otherness serves first to fulfill his psychological needs to learn and become one of the initiated through suffering—whether it involves himself or the loss of other people around him.

Book Details

Lexington Books

Pages: 120 • Trim: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2

978-0-7391-8759-3 • Hardback • June 2015 • $78.00 • (£52.95)

978-0-7391-8760-9 • eBook • June 2015 • $74.00 • (£49.95)

Subjects: Literary Criticism / American / General, Literary Criticism / European / General, Literary Criticism / American / Regional, Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century

Author

Silvia Ammary is assistant professor of American literature and writing at John Cabot University in Rome.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Chapter One: Hemingway and Italy: A Unifying Space of Loss and Gain

Chapter Two: Italian Food as a Literary Device in Hemingway’s Fiction

Chapter Three: Hemingway and Spain: The Sacredness of the Land and Its People

Chapter Four: Hemingway and Paris: Aimless Tourism

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Silvia Ammary

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