Hemingway and Italy - by Mark Cirino & Mark P Ott (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Any engagement with Ernest Hemingway's life and work must consider Italy--as Hemingway himself did--fundamental to his life and artistic development. This volume offers essays from not only scholars but also citizens who knew the author to examine how Italy shaped Hemingway's writing, whether in explicit scene-settings, character references, or filtered disappointments, and to reflect the current state of studies about Hemingway's Italian life, career, and imagination.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>From his World War I service in Italy through his transformational return visits during the decades that followed, Ernest Hemingway's Italian experiences were fundamental to his artistic development. <i>Hemingway and Italy</i> offers essays from top scholars, exciting new voices, and people who knew Hemingway during his Italian days, examining how his adopted homeland shaped his writing and his legacy. The collection addresses Hemingway's many Italys--the terrain and people he encountered during his life and the country he transposed into his fiction. Contributors analyze Hemingway's Italian works, including <i>A Farewell to Arms, Across the River and into the Trees, </i>lesser-known short stories, fables, and even a previously unpublished Hemingway sketch, "Torcello Piece." The essays provide fresh insights on Hemingway's Italian life, career, and imagination. <b>Contributors: </b> Giacomo Ivancich - Ruggero Caumo - Scott Donaldson - Sergio Perosa - Rosella Mamoli Zorzi - Davide Lorigliola - Alberto Lena - Miriam B. Mandel - Michael Kim Roos - John D. Schwetman - Adam Long - Marina Gradoli - Piero Ambrogio Pozzi - Kirk Curnutt - Cam Cobb - Kei Katsui<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"An indispensable source for anyone seeking wider knowledge of twenty-first-century Hemingway research, particularly with respect to his works set in Italy."--<i><b>Modern Language Review</i></b> "An accessible introduction to Hemingway and Italy. . . . The collection is a pleasure."--<i><b>Hemingway Review</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Mark Cirino</b>, associate professor and Melvin M. Peterson Endowed Chair of English at the University of Evansville, is the author or editor of several books, including <i>Ernest Hemingway: Thought in Action</i>. <b>Mark P. Ott</b>, instructor of English at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts, is the author or editor of several books, including <i>A Sea of Change: Ernest Hemingway and the Gulf Stream--A Contextual Biography.</i>
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