Art matters : Hemingway, craft, and the creation of the modern short story / Robert Paul Lamb.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lamb, Robert Paul, 1951-
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2010], ©2010.
Subjects:
Physical Description:xviii, 273 pages
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Historical genre, dispassionate presentation, and authorial judgment : the legacy of Maupassant and Chekhov
  • Minimizing words and maximizing meaning : suggestiveness, concision, and omission
  • Depicting consciousness in modern fiction : expressionism and impressionism from Crane to Cather and Hemingway
  • Who sees and who speaks : Hemingway's art of focalization
  • Repetition and juxtaposition : from Stein to Hemingway
  • Openings, endings, and the disjunctive bump
  • The normative center, the illustrative stamp, and the Joycean epiphany
  • The new art of constructive dialogue : from James to Hemingway
  • Plot, characterization, and setting.