Hemingway’s Geographies: Intimacy, Materiality, and Memory (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies) - Softcover

Gruber Godfrey, Laura

 
9781349958764: Hemingway’s Geographies: Intimacy, Materiality, and Memory (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies)

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This book draws on the tools of literary analysis and cultural geography to investigate Ernest Hemingway's sophisticated construction of physical environments. In doing so, Laura Gruber Godfrey revises conventional approaches to Hemingway's literary landscapes and provides insight about his fictional characters and his readers alike.


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Laura Gruber Godfrey is Assistant Chair of the Department of English and Humanities at North Idaho College, USA. She has published widely on American literature and on Hemingway in journals such as Western American Literature, Arizona Quarterly, Critique, and The Hemingway Review as well as in the edited collections Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism, Ernest Hemingway and the Geography of Memory, and Teaching Hemingway and the Natural World.

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This book combines close literary analysis withrecent research on culture and the spaces humans inhabit. By examining a widerange of Hemingway s writing, including excerpts from his letters; shortstories such as Big Two-Hearted River and On the Quai at Smyrna ; theposthumously-published The Last Good Country and A Moveable Feast; and the novels The Sun Also Rises and AFarewell To Arms, Laura Gruber Godfrey shows how characters immersions inplace are essential to Hemingway s fiction. Revising conventional views ofHemingway s various landscapes as literary symbols or external settings foraction, Godfrey shows that, for Hemingway, humans and geography are oftencoextensive and interdependent.

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