Appropriating Hemingway: Using Him as a Fictional Character

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--including that of fan fiction--and deals with such questions as what, if anything, this biographical fiction adds to the dialogue about America's best known and most talked about writer.

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Appropriating Hemingway: Using Him as a Fictional Character

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--including that of fan fiction--and deals with such questions as what, if anything, this biographical fiction adds to the dialogue about America's best known and most talked about writer.

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Appropriating Hemingway: Using Him as a Fictional Character

Appropriating Hemingway: Using Him as a Fictional Character

by Ron McFarland
Appropriating Hemingway: Using Him as a Fictional Character

Appropriating Hemingway: Using Him as a Fictional Character

by Ron McFarland

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Overview

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--including that of fan fiction--and deals with such questions as what, if anything, this biographical fiction adds to the dialogue about America's best known and most talked about writer.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786479771
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date: 12/15/2014
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Ron McFarland, the author of more than 20 books, is a professor of English at the University of Idaho.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Preface 1

1 Appropriating Ernest Hemingway 7

2 Young Hemingstein 30

3 Hemingway Makes the Twenties Roar 49

4 Hemingway and the Threatening Thirties 76

5 Ernest Hemingway: Our Man in Havana 104

6 Sci-fi Papa; or, Hemingway in Speculative Fiction 127

7 With Hem Obsessed 149

8 Hemingway on Stage, Screen and Television 168

9 Hem Among the Poets 198

Conclusion 227

Chapter Notes 235

Works Consulted 246

Index 255

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