Hemingway and Italy

Name: Hemingway and Italy
Author: Mark Cirino
ISBN: 9780813081137

Twenty-First-Century Perspectives

Edited by Mark Cirino and Mark P. Ott

Published by: University Press of Florida

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. Hemingway and Italy 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.

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“A true gift for Hemingway aficionados! With previously unpublished work by Hemingway, memories of the writer by those who knew him, and essays by an outstanding international team of scholars, this collection deepens our understanding of Hemingway’s relationship to a country that he loved and that was central to his fiction.”—Carl P. Eby, author of Hemingway’s Fetishism: Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of Manhood
“These extremely powerful essays bring a richer and more cosmopolitan understanding of the Italian underpinnings of Hemingway’s writing.”—Linda Patterson Miller, editor of Letters from the Lost Generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and Friends
“A useful experience for readers. Its blending of biography and textual study is perfect.”—Linda Wagner-Martin, editor of Hemingway: Eight Decades of Criticism

“An indispensable source for anyone seeking wider knowledge of twenty-first-century Hemingway research, particularly with respect to his works set in Italy.”—Modern Language Review
“An accessible introduction to Hemingway and Italy. . . . The collection is a pleasure.”—Hemingway Review
“Mark Cirino and Mark P. Ott have put together a collection of essays that showcases a considerable variety of critical approaches, as well as an array of international perspectives and sensibilities, which truly befits Hemingway’s cosmopolitanism. Hemingway and Italy is a welcome addition both to Hemingway studies and to scholarship devoted to the venerable tradition of the international theme, particularly as regards the complex, fruitful relationship between American writers and Italy.”—Modernism/modernity
“This volume beckons us with a truly unique and heretofore unearthed consideration of Hemingway’s Italy by engaging with a wide variety of Hemingway experts, connoisseurs, friends, and acquaintances alike, who deliver a provocative read about Hemingway’s connection with Italy.”—Italian Americana

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

“Torcello Piece” by Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway and Italy: An Introduction
Mark Cirino and Mark P. Ott

Part I. Reminiscences

Chapter 1. Address to the Hemingway Society Congress: Venice, June 22, 2014
Giacomo Ivancich

Chapter 2. Remembering Ernest Hemingway: And the Sad Epilogue of a Hero Described in the Novel Across the River and into the Trees
Ruggero Caumo

Part II. Hemingway’s Italy in Context

Chapter 3. Ernest, Hadley, and Italy
Scott Donaldson

Chapter 4. Views of Venice before Hemingway
Sergio Perosa

Chapter 5. Torcello: From John Ruskin and Henry James to Ernest Hemingway
Rosella Mamoli Zorzi

Chapter 6. Hemingway at Lignano Sabbiadoro and in Friuli-Venezia Giulia
Davide Lorigliola

Part III. A Farewell to Arms

Chapter 7. The Many Faces of Defeat: Italian Ideological Contexts in Frederic Henry’s Caporetto
Alberto Lena

Chapter 8. Reading and Not Reading The Black Pig in A Farewell to Arms
Miriam B. Mandel

Chapter 9. “What If You Are Not Built That Way?”: H. G. Wells and the Conflict of Science and Faith in A Farewell to Arms
Michael Kim Roos

Chapter 10. “I Was in Italy . . . and I Spoke Italian”: The Cosmopolitan Battlefield of A Farewell to Arms
John D. Schwetman

Part IV. Across the River and into the Trees

Chapter 11. Artifice and Reality: The Blending of Venice and America in Across the River and into the Trees
Adam Long

Chapter 12. Across the River and into the Trees: A Trigonometric Mirror
Marina Gradoli

Chapter 13. The Italian Translation of Across the River: Will It Ever Reach the Juncture?
Piero Ambrogio Pozzi

Chapter 14. Across the Associate Editorship of the Harvard Lampoon and onto the Wall above the Urinal: The Reach and Legacy of E. B. White’s “Across the Street and into the Grill”
Kirk Curnutt

Part V. The Fables

Chapter 15. Dear Children (Good and Bad), You Are Cordially Invited to a Roasting of Instructional Literature
Cam Cobb

Chapter 16. A “Very Complicated” Diet for a Lion: The Functions of Food and Drink in “The Good Lion”
Kei Katsui

List of Contributors

Index