Blowing the Bridge: Essays on Hemingway and For Whom the Bell Tolls

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This collection of recent essays on Hemingway and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" sets out to demonstrate the centrality of this Spanish Civil War novel in the author's life and canon and aims to reestablish the book's status as an American masterpiece. It provides a reassessment of the novel, which was an overwhelming critical and popular success in 1940. Following Rena Sanderson's introduction, the volume begins with a reconsideration of Hemingway's career by novelist Kurt Vonnegut. Ten literary essays by both well-known specialists and new voices follow. Employing a diversity of critical methods, including the biographical, historical, political, textual, ethical, feminist, religious, mythic, generic, and post-structuralist, these essays reveal the literary and historical richness of Hemingway's novel. Informed by recent developments in Hemingway scholarship, the chapters add up to a valuable Hemingway resource. The book aims to be an important contribution to Hemingway studies, American literary scholarship, and American studies. It should be valuable reading for anyone working on "For Whom The Bell Tolls".

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RENA SANDERSON is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Boise State University. She teaches courses on American literature and women writers. Her current research interests include Hemingway, immigrant and expatriate writings, and autobiographies by women of the Lost Generation. Professor Sanderson organized and directed the Hemingway in Idaho conference in June 1989.