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Appropriating Hemingway : using him as a fictional character / Ron McFarland.

Title
Appropriating Hemingway : using him as a fictional character / Ron McFarland.
Author
McFarland, Ronald E.
Publication
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2015]

Holdings

Details

Description
x, 270 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"In more than 30 novels, several short stories, graphic novels, movies, plays and poems, Ernest Hemingway has been introduced or "appropriated" as an important fictional character. This book is an inquiry into that phenomenon from various perspectives and deals with such questions as what, if anything, this biographical fiction adds to the dialogue about America's best known writer"--
Subject
  • Characters and characteristics
  • Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961
  • Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 > Characters
  • Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 > In literature
  • Literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-254) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Appropriating Ernest Hemingway -- Young Hemingstein -- Hemingway makes the twenties roar -- Hemingway and the threatening thirties -- Ernest Hemingway: our man in Havana -- Sci-fi Papa; or, Hemingway in speculative fiction -- With Hem obsessed -- Hemingway on stage, screen and television -- Hem among the poets.
ISBN
  • 9780786479771 (softcover : acid-free paper)
  • 0786479779 (softcover : acid-free paper)
  • 9781476618265 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2014040118