Although omitted from the Scribner's edition of the novel, Hieronymus Bosch's masterpiece The Garden of Earthly Delights figures prominently in the manuscript of The Garden of Eden. Bosch was much on ...Hemingway's mind throughout the 1950s, with references to him appearing in several novels and interviews, but the tripartite structure of Bosch's great triptych—with panels devoted to Eden, worldly delight, and Hell—is especially important to The Garden of Eden, mirroring a divided attitude central to the structure of the novel and central to the structure of Hemingway's psychology.
Hemingway's Spain Eby, Carl P; Cirino, Mark
2016, 2015, 2016-01-06
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Ernest Hemingway famously called Spain "the country that I loved more than any other except my own, " and his forty-year love affair with it provided an inspiration and setting for major works from ...each decade of his career: The Sun Also Rises, Death in the Afternoon, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Dangerous Summer, and The Garden of Eden; his only full-length play, The Fifth Column; the Civil War documentary The Spanish Earth; and some of his finest short fiction, including "Hills Like White Elephants" and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place." In Hemingway's Spain, Carl P. Eby and Mark Cirino collect thirteen penetrating and innovative essays by scholars of different nationalities, generations, and perspectives who explore Hemingway's writing about Spain and his relationship to Spanish culture and ask us in a myriad of ways to rethink how Hemingway imagined Spain—whether through a modernist mythologization of the Spanish soil, his fascination with the bullfight, his interrogation of the relationship between travel and tourism, his involvement with Spanish politics, his dialog with Spanish writers, or his appreciation of the subtleties of Spanish values. In addition to fresh critical responses to some of Hemingway's most famous novels and stories, a particular strength of Hemingway's Spain is its consideration of neglected works, such as Hemingway's Spanish Civil War stories and The Dangerous Summer. The collection is noteworthy for its attention to how Hemingway's post–World War II fiction revisits and reimagines his earlier Spanish works, and it brings new light both to Hemingway's Spanish Civil War politics and his reception in Spain during the Franco years. Hemingway's lifelong engagement with Spain is central to understanding and appreciating his work, and Hemingway's Spain is an indispensable exploration of Hemingway's home away from home.
The tension between creation and destruction is central to Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden . Catherine’s role as “destroyer”—burning David’s stories—is self-evident, but critics have also long ...recognized her creativity. David calls himself “the inventive type,” but what has long gone unnoticed is his destructive side. The Eden manuscript reveals that David destroys part of his own honeymoon narrative. What’s more, the physical evidence of the manuscript suggests that Hemingway destroyed significant portions of his own text. A study of this theme in the novel illuminates a crucial difference between the creativity of Catherine and the creativity of David.
Although omitted from the Scribner's edition of the novel, Hieronymus Bosch's masterpiece The Garden of Earthly Delights figures prominently in the manuscript of The Garden of Eden. Bosch was much on ...Hemingway's mind throughout the 1950s, with references to him appearing in several novels and interviews, but the tripartite structure of Bosch's great triptych--with panels devoted to Eden, worldly delight, and Hell--is especially important to The Garden of Eden, mirroring a divided attitude central to the structure of the novel and central to the structure of Hemingway's psychology.
In Hemingway's To Have and Have Not, Dorothy Hollis is more than just another lonely, sexually troubled soul among the "haves" in Key West's yacht basin. Hemingway's choice of the last name "Hollis" ...for Dorothy is the tip of a little iceberg—at once an inside joke, a sign of Hemingway's deteriorating relationship with his second wife, Pauline, and a bitterly ironic commentary on one of the novel's most important themes: the plight of one man—or one woman—alone.
This article calls attention to a pattern of heterosexual sodomy in four late Hemingway texts to explain the psychological mechanics of the gender transformations experienced by the male protagonists ...of these novels. The article suggests that these protagonists experience a sort of bodily hallucination, for which sodomy functions as a catalyst, and which amounts to nothing less than a sort of "psychotic flash" within the context of an otherwise "perverse" psychology. The paper then uses this framework to briefly link gender to trauma theory in Hemingway studies and theorize why eroticism is so much more overt and transgressive in late, as opposed to early, Hemingway.
For those who plan non-conference-related independent stays in Spain, and who would like Diane, through Intercultural Connections, her company for educational and cultural travel, to provide ...information or recommendations on travel in Spain, make reservations for flights, train travel, hotels, activities, etc., she will be happy to do so for a discounted flat fee of $60. (Note: Recently, in response to increasing direct sales through the internet, vendors such as airlines and rail companies have eliminated or drastically reduced agency commissions. ...flat fees-usually of 80euro-are standard for Spanish travel agencies.) Diane can be reached at SiteDirector@hemingwaysociety.org or mdbuck43@aol.com. The price of the 2006 tour is 1440euro (or 1140euro for those electing the university dormitory option in Pamplona) payable in euros, dollars, or other currencies at the exchange rate on the date of payment, excluding any commissions or transfer fees incurred. According to individual vacation and travel plans, some participants may wish to do only certain portions of the tour, such as the Andalusian portion (returning home afterwards from Malaga), or may include the Madrid portion (if they are planning a departure from Madrid), or do only the Pamplona portion including travel to and from Madrid ( if, for example, they have already visited southern cities and prefer to just relax on the Costa del Sol, spend more time in Madrid, or investigate on their own for a few days before going to Pamplona).
(Today the Paseo Hemingway runs behind the bulking, which sports an excellent taurine museum.) As home to two matadors who inspired The Sun Also Rises-Pedro Romero (1754-1839) and Cayetano Ordonez ...(1904-1974)-and one of the two matadors who inspired The Dangerous Summer-Antonio Ordóñez (1932-1998)-Ronda is ideal for a conference devoted to one of the century's most important and famous aficionados. For those who plan to come early or stay late to combine conference participation with additional tourism in Spain, Intercultural Connections (Diane Buck's company for educational and cultural travel) would be happy to provide information and make arrangements for conferees wanting to spend extra days in Malaga or on the Costa del Sol, and for small group visits to Granada, Madrid, and Pamplona during the festivities of San Fermin. ...Ronda's importance to taurine culture invites a consideration of Hemingway's bullfighting fiction and non-fiction, regardless of specific links to Andalusia.
The author's childhood, lived in the shadow of his celebrated grandfather and spent shuttling between his schizophrenic mother, his bipolar and cross-dressing father, and his generous, eccentric ...granduncle, Leicester, is rich enough material for any memoir. (Similarly, one can't help wondering about Gregory's motives in taking Ernest's former secretary Valerie Danby-Smith as his third wife-or marrying a fourth wife, Ida, whose name and personality might have reminded him of Ada.) Unable to shake his childhood fear of abandonment, Gregory would push his wives to the brink, as if he needed to experience the same old terror, master the trauma by surviving it, or prove that his loved ones would not in fact abandon him.
