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The Year Modernism Found Its Voice
No full textRather than the 1922 of Ulysses and The Waste Land, posits 1925 as the year modernism went mainstream in light of the publication of Mrs. Dalloway, The Great Gatsby, Manhattan Transfer, and In Our Time. Highlights Hemingway\u27s accomplishment of understatement in Big Two-Hearted River, which made clear that the solution to the problem of representing a collective trauma like World War I was not blabbering effusion, but its opposite
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No full textCovers Hemingway\u27s biographical connections to Fitzgerald and disparaging comments about him in Snows. Takahashi compares Fitzgerald\u27s thematic treatment of the destructive power of wealth in his 1934 novel with Hemingway\u27s 1936 short story, speculating on Hemingway\u27s motives for writing about Fitzgerald. Concludes that a close of reading of Dick\u27s and Harry\u27s use of the word blunted to describe their professional deterioration reveals Hemingway\u27s authorial anxieties over his declining career during the 1930s. Contends that while Dick/Fitzgerald was unable to understand his own role in his professional failure, Harry\u27s recognition of the role his choices played suggests Hemingway\u27s hope for overcoming his writing slump
The American Short Story and Me
No full textMemoir by preeminent American literature scholar and teacher Linda Wagner-Martin on the role of short fiction in her career. Reflects on the evolving publishing industry over the past five decades and her unwavering commitment to explication, among other methodologies, in research and teaching. Closes by identifying short stories worthy of future study. Brief references to Hemingway throughout. Wagner-Martin\u27s thoughtful retrospection exemplifies above all that though our greatest teachers may retire from the classroom, they never stop teaching
Ideological Profit: Hemingway, Kol\u27tsov, and the Spanish Civil War
No full textErnest Hemingway\u27s popularity within the Soviet Union was connected to his participation in the Spanish Civil War. These activities were facilitated by Mikhail Kol\u27tsov, the Soviet foreign correspondent and Joseph Stalin\u27s unofficial man in Spain. This article examines the relationship of these two charismatic figures and suggests that much of Hemingway\u27s perception of events in Spain were sculpted by Soviet agents during the final, idealistic period of world revolution. For the Soviet Union, Hemingway\u27s anti-Fascist cultural production would be converted into ideological profits for internal and external audiences, marking the Soviet Hemingway as distinct from his western image
Ellison\u27s Hemingway
No full textThe Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison, published in 2019, along with the essays in Shadow and Act (1964), reveal Ernest Hemingway to have been a major preoccupation for the author of Invisible Man. While Ellison did acknowledge that Hemingway once served as the true father-as-artist of so many of us who came to writing during the late thirties, Hemingway\u27s influence on Ellison was, however, neither simple nor direct. Instead, Hemingway allowed Ellison a way to think about questions of influence : about technique, about producing emotion, and, above all, about how an artist might grapple with America\u27s great moral theme
A Comparison of Multinomial Likelihood and Chi-Square Approaches to Statistical Population Reconstruction
No full textStatistical population reconstruction using age-at-harvest and catch-effort data has recently emerged as a robust and versatile approach to estimating the demographic dynamics of harvested populations of wildlife. Although most reconstruction efforts employ the multinomial likelihood approach to identify which set of model parameters best describes the observed age-at-harvest and catch-effort data, using a χ 2 objective function may provide a suitable alternative with a less steep learning curve. Using a harvested population of North American river otter (Lontra canadensis) in Kentucky as a case study, we investigated the performance of population reconstruction using multinomial likelihood and chi-square formulations. We simulated populations under a range of conditions and found that both the accuracy and precision of reconstruction estimates were similar under the two approaches. These results illustrate the potential benefits of using the χ 2 approach, which may also allow agencies to incorporate auxiliary information from studies for which the corresponding likelihood contributions have yet to be developed
Theology Night Live!: Which Gadgets are Good for You?
No full textWhich gadgets are good for you? Technology and the good life.A theology and technology conversation with Dr. Barbara Sain
